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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trace, in considerable detail, the long record of Administration bungling in setting up and tearing down defense agencies, from WRB through OEM and NDAC down to OPM and SPAB and finally WPB, which only a month ago "fell apart . . . and the head of the board was given a ticket to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Time for a Change | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...freshmen. The best they could achieve would be something less expert even than last season's football (with its smattering of veteran V-12s), but the public was not of a mood to mind: the Notre Dame-Army game was sold out nine weeks ahead of time; advance ticket sales at Minnesota were running 40% ahead of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Teens and TNT | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...seem much worried over the coming struggle for control of the Party in Texas. Had he enjoyed his trip? Yes-all but the Washington newsmen, some of whom were downright "unscrupulous." One had even asked Coke Stevenson, to his face, if he intended to vote the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. The Governor had just ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The War for Texas | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Carroll F. Getchell, director of the Harvard Athletic Association, announced today that all seats for the Harvard-Boston College football game, to be played on October 7, will be reserved. Every student on the undergraduate level, civilian, Army, or Navy, will be entitied to one free ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Game Tickets Reserved, Free to Undergrads at HAA | 9/15/1944 | See Source »

George Norris ignored all the rules. He courted political suicide. Elected on the Republican ticket, he conscientiously nagged at Republican Presidents Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. His constituents were rural, dry Republicans, but in 1928 he campaigned for New York's wet, Catholic, Democrat Al Smith. The only campaign promise he made was: "I have voted against every measure and every motion I believed wrong. ... If reelected, I promise you that I will carry on with that same policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last of the Willful Men | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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