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Word: victimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the winds of a recent 6 to 3 win over M.I.T., whipping at their heels, the Varsity golfers will tramp the Winchester fairways this afternoon in an effort to make a smooth-stroking Bowdoin team their second victim of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tees Off Against Bowdoin Golf Team Today | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

...become more selective, the present arbitrary standards of many departments are rapidly approaching the status of an intellectual roadblock. Faced by a variety of requirements, the student is measured for his Latin suffix less on the basis of his work than on departmental precedents and thus is more a victim of a system than a master of his academic fortune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honorable Mention | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Hyde, The Notting Hill Mystery, written by an unknown disciple of Wilkie Collins, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, in which a deadly vampire lady passes her days snugly in a blood-filled coffin, her nights with her pearly-white incisors sunk gently into a sleeping victim's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vampires & Victorians | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...confused with flaxen-haired, four-year-old Charley Ross, who disappeared in 1874, victim of a widely heralded Philadelphia kidnaping, or with President Truman's press secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterfront Conchie | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...clumsily as the average reporter would handle a Speed Graphic camera. But Francis Michael ("Slim") Lynch makes good pictures with either machine. A year ago, the Washington State Press Club gave old-time Photographer Lynch a prize (for a picture of a murderer's wife tearfully comforting the victim's mother). Last week Slim Lynch, who has now put his camera aside, got another Press Club award-this time, for the best-written feature story in any newspaper in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flash Powder to Portable | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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