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Word: accidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But some schussers can't be stopped. They were lured by the press notices from Aspen, Colorado, which boasted a 20 to 80 inch base and six to eight inches of powder, or north to the Laurentians which always seem to have snow. Others stayed in New England and slid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Snow is Low Blow to New England Schussers, Promoters | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Having repudiated the two totalitarian extremes, Dos Passos faced the tough job of making the next novel in his series a defense of his liberal values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Rebellion to Doubt | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

George Henry Thomas was born on a Virginia plantation, attended West Point more or less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Exposure | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Disclaimer. In Little Rock, Ark., Ernest Horton Jr. paid a $25 fine for shooting a goose out of season, but insisted: "It was just an accident . . . I'm really not that good a shot."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

The discovery was an accident. Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug for Drunks | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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