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...years the people of Kansas City had done nothing at all. For one thing, they had let their schools squeak by without enough money. Every time the school board tried to raise the school levy, they voted it down. Finally, in a desperate economy move last year, the school board pared the school year from 40 weeks down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yes! | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Eliot got partial revenge in the afternoon when its A League basketball team climbed out of the basement on a 36 to 35 squeak over Winthrop. The Puritans carried a six point lead into the second half, but Eliot tied it up and won on a free throw by Dick Godshalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unidentified Dunster Goal Tender Helps to Snap Eliot Skaters' Skein | 2/16/1950 | See Source »

Complete with a new captain and its first collegiate win, a 7 to 5 squeak over Brown '53 on Wednesday, the freshman hockey squad leaves this morning for New Hampshire ice, where it will take on Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yarding Six Will Face NH, Green | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

...columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please. Her big voice glides effortlessly from a low moo to an assured squeak; her huge, heavily lashed eyes roll dramatically. In a monstrous travesty of daintiness, she minces across the stage on squarely planted feet. For perhaps ten minutes an audience seeing her for the first time watches with something resembling embarrassed bewilderment. Then Carol Channing slides into her first solo, a tragic history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Wonderful Leveling Off | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

December. In Los Angeles, as an added service to a lubrication job, Mechanic J. H. Fisher removed a squeak from a car door, put it back next day at the owner's request, because it had "sentimental memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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