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Word: sold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal at Harvard in the second year of this NSA "experiment" is 1500 cards sold, Allen E. Kline '50, head of the drive, announced yesterday. Holders of 400 cards sold earlier this year will be given transfers so their cards will be valid until September 1950, the expiration date of the cards now on sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Starts Drive to Sell Purchase Cards | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

There are no turnstiles on the Metro. Tickets are sold at booths, but most riders buy tickets in advance by the book. The passengers descend to the platforms by long ramps or escalators. Everything is brightly lighted, frequently by indirect ceiling lighting. An attendant tears off a part of the ticket, as in a U.S. movie house. Most of the subway attendants and some of the drivers are women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Metro | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...price is set on the Bible in Widener by University officials, for they point out that it "will never be sold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Student Council members will meet with H.A.A officials this week to suggest that several sections of Stadium seats be sold to settlement-house children at reduced prices just before every game that hasn't a near-capacity crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Suggests HAA Sell Gamins Extra Game Seats | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Then, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, something like panic began. There seemed to be no reason for it, but everybody began to sell. In that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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