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Word: wagonsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The hierarchy of battle victories is highly important to a writer. Foremost, of course, is the proposition that Americans win all wars and most skirmishes. This dictum also applies to Indians, unless pitted against real, government-type Americans. In the latter case, the Indians are pretty sneaky about fighting, almost...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Winner Take All | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

The five Houses in the main College system, however, are bound together by an underground food tunnel 1750 feet long that extends from Kirkland to Leverett. Lost students at Leverett or any other House along the route claim this is the probable cause of cold food, Heamen maintains that it...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Harvard Food: Porridge, Plum Cake, Ptomaine | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

¶ During 21 years of scrabbling for a living in the rough, picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota, Negro Rancher Roland Kercheval and his wife Beatrice have "never met" Jim Crow. Kercheval, in fact, is considered to be of pioneer stock-his grandmother was General George Custer's cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Refugees from Communist lands have slipped through the Iron Curtain in all manner of vehicles-in airplanes, in armored cars, even in circus wagons. Last week came word of an entire family from Red Czechoslovakia arriving in the U.S. zone of Austria buried deep within a load of lumber. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Clear Track | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Last week they strikingly augmented the material resources of their mission. To replace the wheezing, borrowed Fiat which had become their trademark, Franciscan Toschi walked into a Bologna automobile dealer's to take delivery of two new Fiat station wagons (bought on the installment plan). Out of respect for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Flying Friars | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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