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Word: wolfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bumpkins' Biographer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Only five minutes more was the officially recognized time limit for Radcliffe girls to entertain late-returning male-escorts within their dormitories--until last Monday night. But in a mass meeting two nights ago at Agassiz Hall, with Dean Mildred P. Sherman presiding, "keep the wolf at the door" was ratified by the entire student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Dean Quashes 'Degenerated' Good-Nights, Moves Adieux Outside | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...Wolf. In Victoria, Australia, a 15-foot shark, spotted swimming up & down outside the women's baths, was finally caught by a knowing zoologist, who used as bait a piece of pork carved in the shape of a-woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock have been unable to point out a specific case of lowered tariffs or reciprocal agreements adversely affecting American industry. They continue to cry wolf, blind to the lesson they should have learned 15 years ago--that wolves feed on high tariffs and not on low ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

WILLIAM H. WOLF JR. Williamstown, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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