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Word: taxies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombs poured in and taxi cabs streamed out of Brussels last week, rushing soldiers on leave back to their posts, Belgians saw their able young ruler standing with his men as a king should stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...decide a question. . . . We are meandering and muddling through the war making excuses and boasting," criticized Government Supporter Clement Davies, M. P. In fine English sarcasm he assured Mr. Chamberlain that if Hitler had missed the bus, it was because he "too often takes a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain Under Fire | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Washington, a taxi driver found in the back seat of his cab one artificial Negro right leg wearing a sport shoe, sock, and grey trouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

When Dr. Nelson learned that rich Southerners had trouble finding gardeners, he started a four-year course in gardening. Dillard graduates turn their hands to many another job: teaching (favorite), social work, preaching, taxi driving. Of Dillard's 139 graduates, only eleven are unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dillard University | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...educational underworld of Harvard Square has had a run-in with the law. Accused by the Macmillan Company of violating a court injunction against plagiarized tutoring notes, the College Tutoring Bureau now faces repetition of its 1933 debacle, when federal marshals raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPS AND ROBBERS | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

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