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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the first post-war revival of the all-woman college crew meet. The Annex may have to refuse the invitation due to lack of facilities for practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Crew Gets Bid | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel and go west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aaron Gadd | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aaron Gadd | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...McDowell unfortunately used highly dubious methods to try to got rid of the woman who was his opposite in penal philosophy. It might be fairer to the Commissioner to say that he allowed his deputy to use these methods. The activities of Frank Dwyer were continually on the lowest level. He never explained how two Boston newspapers obtained his false and sensational "report" last fall which made the Reformatory look like a riotous Bedlam. His means of gathering "evidence" were repugnant, to put it mildly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters' Victory | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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