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Word: taxies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxi moter showed $4.15, but Robert J. Schafer, program director of the School of Education, said it wasn't so--so emphatically, in fact, that Chicago police arrested him Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Official Protests 'Foul' on Fare, Is Arrested | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...much for Mrs. Josephine Shaw of Cleveland. Just because she couldn't whistle, she complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Phweet, Phweet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Taxi Ride...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...slept until 1:25. When I had climbed to the third floor of the Hygiene Building again, a nurse took my temperature. It was 101. Then I saw a doctor, and he said I should go to the infirmary. While I filled out some forms, the nurse called a taxi...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Easy Stage | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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