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Word: walle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Way Out. In Ardmore, Okla., Bill Bryson and Harold Baker made their break from the Carter County Jail by cutting through the wall with a can opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...fire began when a cigarette ignited rubbish between the lavatory wall and the hall, Deputy Chief Charles O'Connor said. Someone had tossed the cigarette there earlier in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthews Hall Blaze Attracts 300 Yardlings | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

Cambridge firemen answered a phoned alarm at 8:33 o'clock, sending six engines and a rescue squad to the scene. A crew quickly chopped through the hall wall and extinguished the smouldering mass in short order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthews Hall Blaze Attracts 300 Yardlings | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

Plunging through a human wall is easier than driving through concrete, Cleo A. O'Donnell, Jr. '44 discovered yesterday, after the car he was driving skidded into an abutment on the Dorchester Avenue Bridge in South Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleo Shaken Up In Auto Crash | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

Where's the Rush? Furniture dealers suddenly found their warehouses full. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Los Angeles dealer had canceled two carloads when they failed to arrive on time. The manufacturer called him long distance and begged him to reconsider. Said the dealer: "That's the first experience of [that] kind I've had in six or eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Refrain | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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