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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will be a week of coaching by remote control," said Dick Harlow yesterday as hour exams began taking their toll of Varsity football players, and five regulars turned up for afternoon practice...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Exams, Disabilities Pose Rutgers Game Problem | 10/28/1947 | See Source »

Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Torrid Twirler Tantalizes Ten Thousand Men | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Mississippi-Louisiana toll: at least 100 dead or missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Hell at the Dock | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...meantime, the four-year polio epidemic-which last year mounted to more than 25,000 cases, close to 1916's record-seemed to be easing up. The polio toll so far this year (2,235 cases) is less than one-third of the total for the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Up & Down | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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