Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days the three of them traveled 1,000 miles through Texas, getting an idea of its spectacular industrial growth, seeing TIME'S string correspondents on the local newspapers, and talking to all kinds of Texans. In Houston, the Mayor's secretary told a lot about his city and Texas when he was asked how old the handsome City Hall was. He replied: "Oh, it's ten years old, but it's been well kept...
Chinese communists claimed the capture of a string of towns 105 to 125 miles south of the Yangtze River yesterday as part of their southward drive. In quiet Shanghai, meanwhile, the government reported that the Reds had signed a mutual defense pact with the Russian-sponsored North Korean regime and had pledged aid to Burmese Communists...
...gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy Rose Lee ("Looks better in her G-string...
...varsity tennis team, playing on a string of four victories, bumped into its first major opposition of the season Saturday at Cornell and fell before the experienced Big Red team...
Freshman debaters ran their string of consecutive victories to six when they gained the decision over Princeton yesterday at the Union. Walter C. Carrington '52, and Jay R. Nussbaum '52 argued for the crimson, taking the negative side of the topic: "Resolved that basic industries should be nationalized in the United states...