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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell has solved its common room problem by placing a movable set in the Coolidge Room opposite the Large Common Room. Of the two Houses now weighing the idea of television, Leverett is planning a special basement room, while Dunster--loss advanced in the project--asked its residents last month for suggestions as to where to place the set if bought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Rehearse Yule Plays, Worry Over TV and Washers | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

George H. O'Brien, owner of the Provision, reported that a five foot eight inch man, about 35 years of age, entered his store shortly before 7 p.m. and ordered a bottle of rum and some Coca-Cola. James F. Mahoney, a clerk, went to a rear room for the Coca-Cola and upon emerging was stopped at the door by the customer, who partially displayed a silver steel revolver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...gunman told Mahoney and O'Brien to stand still until the store was clear of customers. He then ordered them to stay in the rear room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues, to wounded tissues. He saw the women fever. He heard them scream. He saw them die." Finally Semmelweis knew the reason why more mothers in the First Division ward died: students fresh from the dissecting room were allowed to examine them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pesth Fool | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Of A Young Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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