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Word: sleighs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concluding the performance, the Band will play "Mary and the Lamb Forever," "El Captain," selections from "South Pacific," a Sousa style march, and "Sleigh Ride" and a Harvard medley, both by Leroy Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plays Tonight in Drumbeats; Harvardians Will Perform at Dance | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

...truck, sleigh, and on horseback, Nurse Wilson had plowed through deep snowdrifts, was finally guided into the Indian camp by the smoke of a funeral pyre that signaled another death that day. The only visible signs of life were half-starved, whimpering dogs and wisps of smoke curling from tent tops. Inside the infested canvas tepees and unchinked log shelters, Miss Wilson's flashlight picked out three acutely ill Indians. Two of the victims had almost complete membranes covering their throats, slowly choking them to death. The third had just had a similar membrane removed by another Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Choking Death | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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