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Word: waters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed with water pistols and wearing Halloween disguise, the intruders left without harming either the students or the station's equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mock Desperados Take Over WHBS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...methodically collecting straw for adobe bricks. His house had dissolved, his cornpatch was gutted, his pig and ox had strayed or drowned. Last week, as the first adobe bricks for his new house were drying in the sun, he and his family hunched round an open fire eating fresh-water crabs from Lake Atitlán. But there were no tortillas. Corn could not be bought at any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Grim Harvest | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Miss Luce is rehearsing in a bank vault this morning with the money at her side, "to see what a millionairess would feel like." The actress is due to arrive at the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, 40 Water Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Maniac' Threat, $1,000,000 Keep Actress Luce on Toes | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...moon's face were made by material raining down from the double planet's common disc. The earth must have had similar marks, originally, he thinks, but since it was big enough to hold an atmosphere, the marks were erased long ago by wind-and-water erosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pied Piper of Hamburg | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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