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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Christmas Hope | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...cars across the westbound tracks. Out of the night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train's 270 passengers, 150 of them young, newly drafted soldiers, wailed and called; many were crushed between the crashing cars. Nineteen died, 50 were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Unscheduled Stop | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...full years of broadcasting over steam pipes and electric light lines will be marked by the Crimson Network on Monday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Network Celebrates Sixth Season in Radio | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

After a first-ported stalemate, the Crimson yearlings picked up steam when Kenary and don Trimble teamed up on an end-zone pass midway through the second stanza. The second score came after the half, as Al Maggone garnered another Kenary-sponsored pass. Kenary, a 60-minute performer and a dangerous man all the time, added the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenary Shines as Freshman Gridders Subdue Dartmouth | 11/12/1946 | See Source »

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