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Word: valleyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mill Valley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...split second later he hit Sprek on the ledge and threw him 120 feet into the valley. McNear's own body cleared the rocks and hurtled another 1400 feet. He fell through space more than 10 seconds before landing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNear Buried Soon, Fell-from 'Giant's Tooth' | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure the number of bushels in a wagon bed [or a] corn bin." Soon farmers from all over the valley, and from Chicken Creek and Unknown, too, began asking his pupils to measure their fields and count their bushels for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Margaret Hastings, 34, wartime WAC corporal who was beloved of the tabloids in 1945 when she and two G.I.s were stranded for 47 days in a remote New Guinea valley after their plane had crashed; and Robert Atkinson, 29, insurance salesman; he for the second time; on June 24; in Forestville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...packed in a luncheon featuring President Conant, a meeting of the officers of the AHC, a tour of San Francisco, a meeting of the Business School Alumni, a symposium on America's economic future, and a special combination sight-seeing and thirst-slaking excursion through the wine-rich Napa Valley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Elect Robinson New Leader at San Francisco Gathering | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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