Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After that, two more cops came in to look through the baggage...
...range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been robbed...
...group, composed of Julius Adler, John G. Morey, and Lester L. Ward, all of '52, will oppose Yale tonight in the Union Upper Common Room at 8 p.m. David L. Auerbach, Leo Bersani, and Allen Lichtenberg will travel to Princeton. In the third match Yale and Princeton exchange teams...
...Travel Expert: I'm sorry...
...with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...