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Word: stores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the Coop should buy with the student in mind. Complete supplies are worth the risk of slight over-stocking, as long as it is the students' store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are You Being Helped? | 2/10/1953 | See Source »

...Rule. There were riots over cocoa prices, and one February day in 1948, a band of Gold Coast veterans of World War II marched on the British governor's palace. In the street fighting that followed, police shot two Africans, wounded many more; a berserk mob looted every store in sight, and 29 people were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

During the night, a French Communist had crudely painted "U.S. Go Home" on a shuttered store front in Montmartre. The next morning an American newsman named Louis Fontaine set up his portable tape recorder beside the sign. He asked passers-by what they thought of it. Most of them did not know what the English words meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Worcester in Europe | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette Davis -with her strident voice, nervous stride, mobile hands and popping eyes - is still her own best imitator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Testimonial. In San Bernardino, Calif., a safecracker who failed to pry open a department-store safe wrote Manager R. N. Creamer that he had never "worked on a better safe," advised: "If I have messed this one up too bad for further use, I urge that you get another one just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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