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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election's toll of violence mounted day's bloody Philippine election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hynes Defeats Curley; Lehman, O'Dwyer Win | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

Hour exams and Princeton game bumps took their toll at varsity football practice yesterday, as Coach Art Valpey restricted his first two offensive units to limbering-up exercises and sent those who hadn't played offense Saturday through a brief scrimmage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams and Bruises Limit Varsity Eleven's Workout | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Massachusetts went to work yesterday to find out how much it will cost to build a toll express highway joining the end of Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway with the New Hampshire link to the Maine Turnpike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Ponders Plans To Improve N.Y. Road | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost nil. This has been achieved by what one French colonel called un petit cachet medieval: sentries are posted on 40-ft. towers recently built on each road at one-mile intervals. A dawn patrol from each tower digs up the land mines which the Communists plant during the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Life with Father & Mother | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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