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Word: taxicab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...last week, Citation's once-fevered ankle was ice cold and sound as a dollar. The trouble was that during his long wait on the shelf, Citation had developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Nice to be Needed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Taxicab (as a sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...stoic admiral added: "There is nothing unusual about such a compromise with fate. We make these decisions each time we ride in a taxicab or go skating or skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Tranquil Admiral | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Teamsters in all U.S. cities will simultaneously set out to double the union's membership from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. They will go after new members in the automotive trades, bakeries, the beverage industry, building and construction, canneries, dairies, the taxicab and short-haul bus fields, general hauling, sales drivers, the produce field, warehouses and driveaway and truck-away enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Man of Peace | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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