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Word: suppers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin' times" he often mans an after-supper shift, and the buckety-buck of his tractor can be heard until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Family Circle. On the Moore farm, supper is the main time for the family. At the table will be Joe's grandmother Carver, who lives in a first-floor room of the big white house and knits delicate white bedspreads for her young relatives. There on a visit may be Joe's married sister, Mrs. Donneita Lampley. At the supper table too will be Joe's mother, pert, determined Thelma Ashley Carver Moore, now 44, who, in addition to her heavy household duties, holds down the job of Jackson County School Supervisor. She still finds time, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Several of the student distributors asserted last night, however, that they had not gotten their tickets until 6:30 Thursday, and that by the time they had alphabetized the envelopes it was too late to hand them out at supper...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Ticket Mix-up Leaves 50 Looking for Seats | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

Three distributors said they had not given out tickets at lunch yesterday because they had 12 o'clock classes or just did not know they were supposed to do it. Lunden asserted, however, that he had instructed everyone to be sure to distribute tickets at Thursday supper and Friday lunch...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Ticket Mix-up Leaves 50 Looking for Seats | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...H.A.A. finally handed out to these people such tickets as they had at that time finished processing. The representatives, after alphabetizing the envelopes, finally reached the dining halls at 6:00. A student fortunate enough not only to have had his tickets processed but also to have been at supper between 6 and 7, received his tickets. On Friday the representatives returned to the H.A.A. and again picked up such tickets as the H.A.A. has finished processing. That night the fortunate could again pick up their tickets. In some Houses tickets were also available Friday noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TICKET TO NOWHERE | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

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