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Word: unlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Swanson, flamboyant screen actress of the silent movies, will unlock the secret chambers of her heart to reminisce on the old days in Hollywood at 8 p.m. tonight in Fogg Museum Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Hears Gloria Swanson | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Gets Back Itinerant Briefcase | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...this point your first small burst of energy is over and you retire to your chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Schusser Finds Bliss In Other Sports | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...seated themselves in a dimly lighted hotel room in Springfield, Mass., held hands, made one last attempt to communicate with the spirit of the late Harry Houdini. When the lights were turned on they knew they had failed again. Two sets of locked handcuffs (which Houdini had promised to unlock if he could get back from the "world beyond") were undisturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Television's future, says Jack R. Poppele (rhymes with floppily), president of the Television Broadcasters Association, "is as expansive as the human mind can comprehend. Television holds the key to enlightenment which may unlock the door to world understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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