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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew yesterday morning began the three-week job of enforcing the University regulation which states: "Occupants of the dormitories will refrain from driving nails, screws, and thumbtacks into the walls, and using scotch tape on the walls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trottenberg 'Troops' Begin Drive To Protect Yard Dormitory Walls | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table (for a hasty sip of Scotch) and the dance floor. Idaho's young (32) Freshman Senator Frank Church, ambushed into a dance with Washington Society Hostess Gwen Cafritz, gasped: "Gee whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Scotch on the Rocks. Natural disasters seemed few'and far between in the long solstice of Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time of Trembles | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Geordie. A stiff comic punch delivered by the British-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Long Gray Line creeps forward with its study cards, as the sun, elsewhere, sets toward the 5 p.m. deadline. In the foreground, a baby, which was born and grew up before the last of the students had reached the doors of University Hall, gurgles quietly in a Scotch Plaid stroller. The student rushing off in the background had arrived early but spent most of the afternoon looking up exam groups. Those who did not pass the doors on or before 5 p.m. were charged the traditional ten dollar fine. The fine, in the past, has been added to the tardy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Result in a $10 Charge...' | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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