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Word: wholely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munroe-Langstroth Contractors of North Attleboro started to dig into the Charles last Wednesday on a one-year, $732,000 contract with the Metropolitan District Commission. The whole project, including the access roads on both sides of the river and an extension of Mem Drive to Arsenal Street, Watertown, will cost another...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...other serious contender for the mayor's office is Governor's Councilor Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough. With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his goal is 85,000 handshakes before election day. Behind him, McDonough has a large block of South Boston votes plus the backing of a number of CIO unions. Though he would like to match the vote that Hynes hopes for, McDonough's unfamiliarity with the voters in large areas...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Curley Has Edge in Boston Election | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...There was none of this rough stuff in my day," he said. "We had only three men to police the whole University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday the whole 90-mile system was opened to traffic, and the State Highway Commission has promised to extend the route to the Massachusetts border...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Snarled New Haven Detour Vanishes As Connecticut Opens Rock Tunnel | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...might be surmised from the title--"Texas, Li'l Darlin'"--and the foregoing commentary, the plot makes no noticeable effort to avoid the cliches apparently inherent in a Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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