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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What really hurts is that I've got 48 more weeks left, and between the end of summer session on Aug. 20 and the fall session on Sept. 15, things are going to be a tighter fit than my wedding ring. A month ago I could see $80 coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Sitting Room Only. In Blauvelt, N.Y., Summer Theater Operator Harry Rosen, plagued with a surplus of actors, began hiring them out to customers at 50? an hour as baby sitters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Since mid-June, the heat-humid, tropical, inescapable-had pressed down on great areas of the U.S. In the region around the Great Lakes, in New England and the middle Atlantic coast, the hottest summer on record was in the making. It had been equally hot or hotter in the South and parts of the Southwest, where such weather is more normal, but not more bearable. Last week, temperatures pushed even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Heat | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Summer Concert Series (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts NBC Symphony. Soloist: Contralto Elena Nikolaidi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Cleveland, for example, it was "nearly impossible to find attractive summer dresses ... without bobbing into one store after another. In Pittsburgh and Washington you'll likely have to look in half a dozen shops before you find [a summer suit] of acceptable size, style and price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spotty | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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