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Sunday, February 22, 1948
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The Headlines
N.Y.A.C. OUTSCORES PIONEERS BY POINT IN NATIONAL TRACK; Winged Foot Gains Title With 16 as Vislocky Takes High Jump Finale at Garden
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
Art Mooney and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
The Voice of the Turtle
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- George Washington (1732)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)
- Heinrich Hertz (1857)
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857)
- Horst Köhler (1943)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
28,594 days ago
(78 years, 124 days)