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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington on the last day of October 1948, burly William Marshall Boyle Jr., one of Kansas City's smartest local politicians, pushed aside a pile of statistics and predicted flatly that Harry Truman would carry 29 states. He was wrong on only one state: Maryland went for Tom Dewey (by 8,293 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Spoilsman | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Straphangers | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Freestyle skating, Button's specialty, was the field in which the Massachusetts Hall resident most outshone his opponents. He went through his repertoire of runs, mid-air twirls, high splits, and prodigious leaps without a slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Button Retains World Skating Title | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

William Gold '49 was named public relations director for the Boston region, while Robert B. Lukingbeal '50 was named finance director of the project. The post of intercollegiate co-ordinator went to W. Jarvis Moody '50. Both Edward Genn '50 and Christopher May '51 were appointed Contact Division Chiefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Picks Heads Of Discount Plan | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

...third period the prop schoolers went through a brief spasm of scoring, narrowed their deficit for four minutes, and then relapsed into ineffectiveness. Their only consolation was that Fritz Etelman scored 16 points and seven of their 11 field goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickey Leads '52 Quintet to 62-33 Win Over Exeter | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

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