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Word: saucers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pen, Pencil Not Adequate For, Exams, 'Cliffer Shows | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

...Sighting a "flying saucer" high over Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky., three National Guard pilots zoomed up in P-51s to investigate. At about 25,000 feet, Capt. Thomas Mantell's plane started to spin, plunged downward, and disintegrated at tree-level. The "saucer" turned out to be a weather balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Reber read about the sky waves some ten years ago while he was working as a radio engineer in Wheaton, Ill. To eavesdrop on the stars, he built a radio "telescope" in his backyard. It was mostly a saucer-shaped receiver of sheet metal, 31 ft. in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sky Waves | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Track Coach Jaakko Mikkola will get a chance to start cataloging some of his runners this afternoon in the Cage when six sets of Crimson relay teams hit the board saucer against units from Brown and Rhode Island State. Today's competition will provide a prelude for Saturday's full-scale, informal meet at Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relay Quartets Open Track Season Today | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

Insuring snug conditions in the wettest weather is a brand new $20,000 skylight, which looks down onto the newly-installed Oregon pine balcony saucer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Track Aspirants Hear Coach Mikkola Outline Program for Season | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

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