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Word: stair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borrowed. Blonde, sassy Julia McCarthy, "Nancy Randolph" to readers of the New York Daily News, did not let her subway public down. Borrowing luscious details from the London Mirror account, she told how the happy newly weds headed for their bedroom (pink sheets) at Broadlands and how at a stair landing, "Philip looked down and put his arm around his bride's slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess of Milford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sweetest Story . . . | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...long gap must be bridged before campaign promises and committee proposals become reality. Promises and proposals are a first step, but the stair-way to complete protection of civil liberties is a long one, and many steps remain. Too often, progressive proposals find that Congressional pigeonholes are their graves. As the committee itself stressed, the time for action on these recommendations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom Road? | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

Relief is promised for leg-weary undergraduate patrons of Widener Library, as entrances on two levels and a sunken ground floor will bring stair-climbing at the new building down to a minimum. The top floor of the Undergraduate Library will be as close to the yard level as the entrance of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Organic Design' Marks Lamont Library Plans | 5/24/1947 | See Source »

...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...could go further than the stair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

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