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Word: liquidations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next, Kuiper examined the greenish areas. Their spectra indicated that they could not be vegetation like trees or grass. But they might be lowly lichens like those that grow on the dry rocks near McDonald Observatory. Lichens need no water in liquid form. Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...last drive, Edward T. Kenyon '50 was vampired for an extra pint while another student vamped one of the female blood-letters on Memorial Hall steps. Kenyon quickly restored his internal liquid supply at a local beer emporium, but admitted that it was a trying experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, No Vampire but Out for Blood, Seeks Feminine Pulse-Encouragers | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...first actual test, Blumberg's new set-up recorded the extensive Philippine quake of Saturday, January 24. Only 19 minutes after the earthquake, waves began to "sign in" at the station, 35 miles north of the college, having first made their way through part of the earth's liquid core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New-Type Seismograph Shows All Phases of Quake on Tape | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...manager, a man with the habit of obedience to authority, lined up his underlings. The man with the arm band produced a bottle of colorless liquid and barked: "Drink this before locking the vaults." No one thought to ask why an anti-dysentery potion is not just as effective when a bank's vaults are locked. Obediently they gulped the medicine and collapsed in agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Habit's Hazards | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Despite the serious inroads made on its liquid assets last night by a besieging horde of eager candidates, the CRIMSON's executive board late last night reckoned that a handful or two more might still be accommodated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brew Still Flowing as Crimson Reopens Gates for Candidates | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

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