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Word: tomes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days in the Roosevelt campaign, Curley led a pace that that would have buried two men; he covered 23 states and made 141 speeches. For all this, Roosevelt promised him a cabinet position--probably Secretary of the Navy. However, when the tome came for the appointments Roosevelt changed his mind, offering Curley the ambassadorship to Rome in place of the cabinet job. Once more, Curley accepted but Roosevelt backed down; finally, the President asked Curley if he would accept the position of ambassador to Poland. Apparently,, Roosevelt was not going to make the mistake Curley had made as governor...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

...blooded Flood family of Bristol and how they made their 18th Century fortunes slave-trading on the sultry Gold Coast. Twilight takes over where Sun set, and sweeps the swelling Floods up to the brink of the 20th Century - leaving no doubt that at least one more huge tome is going to have to be purred over by Author Steen before the moonlight dissolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...cents. The quality of the paper seems amazingly good, both the type and margins are accommodating to the eye, and since the books are bound in soft paper, the reader is given a sense of intimacy and control which is hardly possible with a stiff-backed and weighty tome...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

With this tome under his arm, Nelson found a coaching job at Hillsdale College before the start of the '46 season. As athletic director and head football coach of the 800-man school, he lost only one game in his two-year stay--the second game of his opening season. From then until November of '47 two ties were the only marks on an otherwise perfect record...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Backfield Coach Nelson Was Here Before . . . With Harmon and West fall | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

This is Lockridge's first effort, and his six years of labor have produced a gigantic and complicated penetration into The American Myth, enmeshed in a tome which numbers 1066 pages and three explanatory charts that piece out a momentous Fourth of July in an Indiana small town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

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