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Word: tap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballots for commuters will be on tap at a desk in Agassiz House from this morning to tomorrow afternoon. Dormitory students will find their ballots in hall mailboxes today at dinner, and will have 24 hours to place them in locked vote boxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Begins Balloting Today | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

Snooty Reminder. Canton's municipal government, creaking and groaning under an extra load created by the mushrooming population (already estimated at more than 1,600,000), was on the verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...other projects will tap undergraduate pockets for the Fund. Drive officials will be offered a table or booth at the annual May Day Bazaar, where they can sell articles--like all-Radcliffe cook books, or Band-Cheral Society "Radclifilana" records--designed especially for the Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Supports Fund With Dance | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Q.E.D. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Ernestine McCurry, 72, tried hard but failed to prove to police that she was sober, by 1) standing on her head, 2) doing a fast tap-dance routine, 3) climbing her cell bars, hand-over-hand, to the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...bridge of insight between his time and traditional Western culture. He spanned a small part of that gap when he went to live in London, became a British subject. Before the building began, however, and probably before Eliot had any notion of where he was going, he had to tap, test and question the world around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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