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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-eight hours later, Britain's saddened negotiating team boarded a chartered plane and took off for London. Straight from a Scotch & soda going-away party for the negotiators, British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd and Minister George Middleton with their wives-all in evening dress-were on hand to wave goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Blowup? | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Exams were here again, and Scotch comic Harry Lauder came to cheer up the University. But an ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted, lent a sobering note to the proceedings, as the men of '26 sat down to spend the next two weeks writing in blue books. Widow Nolan's tutoring school did a flourishing business, and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes into the College past the watchful eyes of the deans. But the ordeal soon passed, and the Class of '26 could breath easily...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Pierian executive feels badly about this cancellation. He treasurers the memory of one joint concert with an orchestra conducted by a lady whose evening dress strap kept falling down. Men in the orchestra paid attention to the conductor until the gown was fixed with scotch tape after the second number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Gives Easter Concert With Violinist | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

...later. "But it got us warmed up for a good long fight." Father Hogan then set about building the A.W.U. Johnny Tan took the low road: talking to workers, studying their problems; Father Hogan took the high road: in his Ford jalopy (he says it runs on prayers and Scotch tape), he visited influential groups and individuals. By last week hundreds of workers had deserted the U.O.E.F., signed up with Hogan's A.W.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: When Good Men Are Timid | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Ever since the days of Queen Victoria, British monarchs have granted Warrants to tradesmen who supply the royal household with everything from the Scotch in the royal highball to the topper on the royal head. To Britons the list is considered a Who's Who in International Trade, the ultimate stamp of approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: All the King's Men | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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