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Word: ha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ha! Ulen's varsity swimming team hit the water this week in preparation for a tough season against the top teams in the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Teams Hold Early Practice for Hard Schedule; Ulen Fears Dartmouth, Yale | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...motion picture of almost classic proportions Groucho Marx once tried to get his brother Chico to sign a contract which contained a sanity clause. "Ha, you canta fools me," Chico argued, "there is no Sanity Clause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Community Is Heterogeneous | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing but happy talk: "Despite all you can say, when you are ready, you will get the right role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Potsdamer Platz last week, an old man creakily stooped to retrieve a cigarette butt. He expressed the city's skepticism: "New rumors, eh? Ha, they're all just like soap bubbles-too shiny to be true." Near Tempelhof airdrome, where the U.S. and British planes were still droning in, a student scoffed: "The Russians are bluffing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Waiting | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...bath time. And it is not earlier than 10:00 that the Friendly Nurse barks into the snoring student's car, "Ha-ha-ha--I guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Circling the Square | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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