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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a Loaf. In Honolulu, an aspiring safecracker broke into the Branfleet Sportswear Store, worked long & hard over the safe, finally gave up, turned his attention to a piggy bank, departed with two bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore, in this ancient feudal ceremony, that whoever broke the agreement would end up like the chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One-Eyed Dragon | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...hate Tullai, but I Dorsey that Norman will deny that the Rodis Bright if we Kern this one, so Lathron all over them. Good Havens, we will Pierce their line and Paul them apart. Western Maryland will find that to Stenarnd and to sit is Adams sight more safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Says, Let's Make Maryland | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

Wallace will be preceded on the platform by Provost Buck, and by Karson, who will introduce him. Although Karson could not say what Wallace's speech would cover, he said "It is a safe assumption that it will be a very significant speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gate Forecast Of 7500 Shifts Wallace Talk | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

Until now the chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Words and Action | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

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