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Word: pulaski (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Arnow, who was born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fox Hunt | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Something Blue. Ever since he ran the mile for Milwaukee's Pulaski High, Don Gehrmann had preferred to hang back with the pack, then knock off the leader with a terrific sprint in the stretch. But this year Guy Sundt, Wisconsin's track coach, had taught him to run a different kind of race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anthem Night | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

After watching New York by traditional methods, cars should head for the Holland Tunnel and follow U. S. Route 1 over the Pulaski Skyway and down through Elizabeth. South of New Brungwick, a short road cuts off to Princeton. There are signs all along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Find Princeton, N. J. In Only Five Simple Lessons | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...Pulaski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...tavern, was once indicted for accepting a bribe from a parking meter company (the case was dismissed). Two years ago, Board Member Eddie Kopek, who owns a laundry to which the board illegally gave $1,467.13 worth of business, was indicted for trying to sell the principalship of the Pulaski Elementary School (the indictment is still pending; Kopek resigned from the board last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progress in Hamtramck | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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