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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell from City Hall became too much even for torpid Philadelphians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: From the Mire | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...true that McNiel read the story at 2 a.m. But after perusing the article, McNiel said that although it seemed somewhat tactless, it was a good story and would show students that "HYRC was really doing something." He offered not a single objection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Reply to the Young Republicans | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...This is true. The letter accused us of "flights of fancy . . . or slander." It categorically denied our November 7 story. A few hours after we received it, Jansen contradicted his own letter by personally approving the November 8 story, which stated that McNiel had made the statements and that they had been authorized by Jansen and McNiel. There is little point in printing a letter already refuted by its author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Reply to the Young Republicans | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...most of its traditional rivalries, Harvard was able to build up a lead in games won and lost on the basis of a large number of victories in the early years before other schools caught on to the finer points of the game. But this does not hold true in the Yale series. Both teams, along with Princeton, dominated collegiate football for many years and as a result they traded victories pretty evenly...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Stars, Changes, Tradition Feature H-Y Series | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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