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Word: maneuverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whose Rain? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Perhaps the least spurious and most difficult maneuver is the Oklahoma ride. After the game is over the player rocks the machine skillfully, just strongly enough to jar any loose buttons on the playing surface and weakly enough to keep the tilt from hitting. Result, free games. Of course there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brute Force Replacing Skill As Pinball Becomes Lost Art | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Sidewalk superintendents during the next few months will watch squads of workers maneuver construction of the four-story Georgian edifice while also keeping intact the 'Cliffe's small white Field House, home of Radio Radcliffe, a collection of hockey sticks, and several quiversful of arrows.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frozen Turf No Problem as 'Cliffers Dig for New Dorm | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Two Motives. French labor unionists, rallying behind a surprisingly forceful new Premier, Robert Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS),hamstrung a Communist maneuver to paralyze France with strikes. After a week of tension in which the fate of the Fourth Republic hung in the balance, French workers were pouring back to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Door to the Future | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

In 1908 Richard Cresson Harlow was playing on the line for the University of Pennsylvania, and wearing handles on his hip pads so that his teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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