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Word: walle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really not been here long enough to say. He was an extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water-coloring. Those on the wall. I got some wonderful opportunities for painting when I was in Burma...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: Helen Maud Cam: Medieval Ambassador | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...worn clapboard cabin, the 113-year-old black body of Uncle Row Adams lay very still beneath the patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Funeralizing Uncle Row | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Between 1920 and 1926, Childs never netted less than $1,500,000 a year. The Magazine of Wall Street called it one of the five most depression-proof stocks in the U.S. Then William Childs (Sam had died in 1925) turned faddist, and tried to turn Childs's customers into vegetarians. No more sausages with griddle cakes; no more rhubarb pie (someone had told him rhubarb was poisonous). Customers stayed away in droves, and the depression left Childs stranded with high-priced real estate and leases signed at boom-time rentals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: New Chef at Childs | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Elsewhere, Chase will stick to Saturday's lineup, except that in the third forward wall, sophomore Jee Kitteredge will replace Larry Ward as center. Chase says he is please with the progress of the John Garrity-Dave Key-Jack Carman first line that scored six goals in the MIT game...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Varsity Skates Against Brown On Arena Rink | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

Ready or not ... In Tallman, N.Y., Joseph Castellucci returned to his summer home shortly after the deer season opened, found: 1) a bullet-scarred chimney, 2) a well-riddled wall, 3) a bullet hole in the front window, 4) another in a bedroom mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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