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Word: saunter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Want to learn a trade? Just saunter up to the impolite end of Plympton st. in time for 7:30 beer and crumpets tonight. The CRIMSON will pour. Your old rank is guaranteed and old experienced hands will guide you through photographic basic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Opens Competitions Tonight | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

Between Dzerzhinsky Street and Little Lubyanka Street in the heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Furkasovsky Alley | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Committee for Wallace will oppose the Marshall Plan against the Radcliffe League for Democracy in a debate at 3 o'clock tonight in Cabot Ball Saunter H. Rear, assistant professor of Government, will moderate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU. Wallace Group Split on Marshall Plan | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...world crisis called for quick action and the Western powers were in a slow-motion saunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Slow Motion | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yay, Penrod | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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