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Word: roamings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Dick Gump was already running everything but finances before his father died in 1947. An amateur composer and watercolorist, Dick Gump had sharpened his collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Gump's Goes Modern | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...natural animal cruelty of the human species toward its young). Richard Webster's discussion of a Catholic scholar's views on the supernatural seems unnecessarily esoteric, especially the final note of doom that bids us all study the Churchman carefully against the day when goblins will once more roam the earth...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...decided to ban all fraternities and sororities. Fraternity supporters hooted and howled when Garcia tried to make a speech. Some parents joined in. "Several years ago," screamed one mother, "boys died to preserve the ideals you are treading on." Cried one fraternity brother: "Do you want us to roam the streets and become juvenile delinquents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gang Busters | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...countries really overpopulated? It depends on what is meant. A handful of primitive savages, who live by hunting, can "overpopulate" an enormous area of fertile country. They eat up all the food available to them, though the land over which they roam could support, if turned to farming, many hundred thousand people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Other members of the Key will roam through crowds as roving information centers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1952 Hears Conant Talk at Union | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

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