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Word: aii (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces-or why, or how, or when. Scholars have ransacked Easter Island, photographed its relics, cross-questioned its modern natives (there are less than 500)-aii to no avail. It has never seemed possible that the people of a small, barren island 1,100 miles from the nearest inhabited land (Pitcairn Island) should have carved several hundred weighty stone ornaments and lugged them up & over the rim of a volcano. Because of these stone heads, Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mystery of the Flying Heads | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Emerson 211 Geology 17a Emerson 211 German E (see footnote*) Professor Lieder, Sec. 3 Harvard 5 Dr. Fivian, Sec. 4 Harvard 5 Government 13 Mallinckrodt MB 9 Greek B Emerson 211 History 42 Mallinckrodt MB 9 History 75a Harvard 6 Japanese 7 Harvard 6 Latin 12 Emerson 211 Mathematics AII (see footnote*) Professor Coolidge, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Professor Whitney, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Mr. Buck, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Arens, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Mathematics Ab Memorial Hall Mathematics 4 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mineralogy 2 Geol. Mus. 12 Music C New Lect. Hall Philosophy 8 Emerson A Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDYEAR EXAM SCHEDULE | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

...aII prices, leaving them free only to fall. His reason for urging overall price regulation: attempts to fix individual prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Big Stick | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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