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Word: sawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recall, met his present parishioners one day last summer when he went for a walk by the River Han and saw the swarms of ragged urchins clawing over the piled-up refuse for scraps of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story, he figured that $100 would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Sergeant Toomey saw no one running from the scene of the crime, and he suspects a getaway by car from in front of Phillips Brooks House. Clark, however, feels that students are responsible for what he explained was the second bit of thievery that had been perpetrated at his expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vendor Is Milked Of Liquid Wares | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

...direction is good, except for its unintentional lapses into 'Ninotchka' mockery, revealing the risible elements of any dogma-swallowing people; the photography is just right. I found myself frequently on the edge of my seat with stomach tingling, like it used to do when, as a kid, I saw the 'Dracula' films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Iron Curtain. . . . . .at the Metropolitan | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...question runs to 52 pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This finding may not mean much to you but we happened to have an odd copy of The New Yorker around at the time and it, too, had a Steuben Glass ad on page three. Naturally this aroused us somewhat and the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

Please don't print my name, because I hope to make more money by serving at Exams, for the money, not the fun; and Mr. Leonard might not be inclined to use me much if he saw my name. A Proctor (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

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