Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody on tap...
...unit set that weighed only half as much (9 oz.) as the old one. The catch was that it sold for almost twice as much ($75). Self-confident Mr. McDonald bragged of a "new revolution in hearing aids." And by selling it by mail, he hoped to tap a huge market which he considers sadly neglected...
...Calvin Coolidge. Written by John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: 'Calvin's dead, Aurora.' " TIME told how the stockmarket, shocked, had fallen and then "closed with a brief little rally -a farewell salute to the man whose name...
Squads of dormitory and commuter workers will tap every 'Cliffedweller this week for a minimum donation of one book in good condition or its equivalent in cash...
Work was said to be progressing on the 2,400 foot standard guage cable railway on Thorn Mountain's steep slopes at Jackson. The owner hopes to have his railway, which will tap many new slopes on Thorn and Middle Mountains, operating sometime this month...