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Word: roamings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, in surprising amounts, was forthcoming. The administration, after early prodding from student opinion, assumed its responsibilities and moved fast. They quickly set up a central housing office, ordered and set up 198 FPHA family dwellings, rented a Boston hotel, and made extensive further plans that roam on into the fantastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Been a Hard Year Since February, Harry . . . . For Renaissance Was Just Around the Corner | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...himself-to Oedipus who, foredoomed to commit atrocious crimes, has despite all precautions unknowingly murdered his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When the last nail of proof is driven solidly home, Oedipus, in an agony of guilt and horror, blinds himself and goes forth, a beggar, to roam the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Finale | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Poll. Patterson, strapping and sloppily dressed, used to roam the metropolis by night, haunting Bowery bars, El stations, cheap movies and the newsstands, casually asking people what they thought of the News and its boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...believe that the barrier-breaking problem "is not made easier by the fact . . . that the so-called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will join a pool to receive Army favors; a New York Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fight over Freedom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Call Me Mister slows down here & there to the dreamy pace of a sentimental journey-Joe, overseas, thinking of the corner drugstore; a trainload of returning servicemen chanting nevermore-to-roam, going-home blues. But mostly the show clatters briskly along, ribbing everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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