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Word: scraps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John thumbed through his scrap-book to refresh his memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...anyone in the politics cleanup. The CCA, they complain, is trying to claim all credit for the recent improvements and they hint that the CCA is nothing more than an embryo city political machine hiding behind a shield of good deeds. Many independents also want to scrap proportional representation...

Author: By Rudolph Kass and William M. Simmons, S | Title: Political Struggle In Cambridge... | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...replacing the benches with modern study chairs, the University was planning to scrap the planks for lumber, but the Alumni Association intervened with its plan to turn the benches out to pasture. All contributions for the benches will be used for the refurbishing of Wadsworth House which is being remodeled into an Alumni Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Benches in Sever Put on Block for Alumni Purchase | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...When Composer Foster died in a Bellevue charity ward in Manhattan in 1864, he left 38? and a scrap of paper bearing the five words, apparently the title for a new (and never written) song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tales Out of Sunday School | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...debris of the Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Two Cities | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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