Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Example. In Winnipeg, Man., after he had finished writing a series of articles on pickpockets for the Winnipeg Tribune, Reporter Harold Miloff went to the police with a complaint: the material for his fourth article had been picked from his pocket...
Averaging 175 pounds, this eight won over a field which included four English crews; a German crew; a boat from the Winnipeg Rowing Club; and one from the Union Boat Club of Boston made up of Harvard graduates. In the final, it covered 1 5/16 miles...
...present we have three news bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
...many scientists and scholars. Disciples have written articles on his subject ranging from "General Semantics and Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, President George Stoddard of the University of Illinois, Actor Fredric March...
Mine Host. In Winnipeg, Canada, Walter Broughton baited his want ad for a cottage with a promise: the landlord would be "cordially invited to all parties...