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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch's famed John Bull. He and Lucy were strict Sabbatarians, would not even read Sunday papers. His radio chats, larded with folksy platitudes about "service" and "playing the game" kept him at No. 10 Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. John Bull | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...powerful, primitive singing of its huge (203 voices) Echoes of Eden choir had been bringing in new members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Sing to Lift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Houses will continue to serve regular meals through tomorrow evening, when the two-week vacation officially begins. Undergraduates returning to College on Sunday, January 4, will find only the Eliot, Adams, and Union dining halls in operation, with all others opening the following morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Offer Limited Facilities Over Yule Layoff | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...Franconia, New Hampshire cross country and slalom races will lift the lid on the eastern racing season Saturday and Sunday with 50 contestants from eastern colleges expected in the langlauf, 100, in the slalom, and 30 inches of snow on Franconia's Cannon Mountain. The seven-mile cross country race is slated for Saturday in Franconia Notch while the slalom, a 1.8 mile affair down the mountain trail, will be held Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Slate Three Meets For Vacation | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...

Author: By Joan Mopartlin, | Title: Importance of Other Sex Clouds Yuletide Spirit | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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