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Word: short (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes of an important Truman speech. Greenfield wired back: buy the air time, and make it half an hour. When Truman rode through the streets of Philadelphia, short, chubby Albert Greenfield rode with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE ANGELS OF THE TRUMAN CAMPAIGN | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Robert Maulden, who took a short lift in a "new, red" car from someone he assumes is a senior, picked up a manila envelope containing the valuables from the back seat of the car when he lifted out his coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robber Hunts Robbed | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...pulled up short to keep from ramming a parking meter and headed across the tracks into the light from the store front. The magazine rack was right in front of the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Quartet. Four lively vignettes of Britons at home & abroad; from the Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into a short, near-hysterical laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Are Ours | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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