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Word: stumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four speakers will stump for Governor Dewey, President Truman, Norman Thomas, and Henry Wallace. After that the meeting will be turned over to a general discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House to Hold Election Bull Session | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Besides being tardy, the Council suggestions are also incomplete. The code for indoor meetings is clear and well-considered, but the Council has not set down specifically where and why a stumper may stump out of doors. The Council has said what general considerations should guide University Hall, but it has said nothing about particular steps and streets and deltas. There could be much unpleasantness if the Faculty has only a vague basic policy to back up its permissions and denials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Rules | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

Also scheduled for the 8 p.m. gathering in Emerson D is Jay E. Janson '50, who will ask volunteers to stump for Representative Christian Hertor '15. The rival Committee for Wallace has already announced it will actively campaign against Hertor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitney Subs for Bradford at GOP Meeting Tonight | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Good Works at a Profit | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that had seen nothing new since the gold boom had passed and Aleijadinho, his chisel lashed to the stump of a rotting arm, had hewn his greatest monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Pilgrimage | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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