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Word: abbott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Robert S. Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Defender and Skeleton | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...last game, the flashy-looking but low-scoring league leading Puritans defeated Leverett on goals by Goldthwait, Wood, and Abbott. Gigantic Will Nichoil tallied Leverett's lone marker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND, DORM, WINTHROP WIN | 2/11/1941 | See Source »

...door stencilled no admittance. They are the official hello girls of Harvard University--the telephone operators of KIR 7600, which since 1934 has been Harvard's number. Forty main truck lines lead into their switchboard and over six hundred local phones are in the system, ranging from Miss Abbott through a multitude of organizations and professors to Zoology Museum. Direct wires tie in the various graduate schools, Western Union, Postal Telegraph, and Radcliffe...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Here is a letter from my recently mobilized "little" brother [Staff Sergeant Lysle I. Abbott, at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark.]. He is 22 years old; graduated from college last year and intends to resume his education in law after his military service is completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...around again. Carpenters put new locks on the library doors, fastened all windows. That night Yard cops were stationed outside to watch. Next morning locks and windows were found intact but the books had again been reversed, and for good measure, a portrait of Harvard's ex-President Abbott Lawrence Lowell was hung upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foul Play at Harvard | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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