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Word: america (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover of the pamphlet was the prize-winning photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima along with the words, "Should AMERICA'S College Professors be pro-AMERICAN? A thought-provoking contrast in points of view from Bloomfield College...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: National Squawk Meets Lecturer's Statement | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

Teele also announced that a State Department representative will be at Harvard Monday afternoon with information about jobs in America's "cultural centers" in other countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Placement Office Releases Data On Exam for Government Jobs | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. has started work on a legislative project which may take him the rest of his life to complete. He has put forth a constitutional amendment altering the time-honored way in which America chooses a President. Under the Senator's plan, electoral units would take the place of presidential electors. Each state would keep its present total of electoral votes--but with a difference. Instead of the leading candidate garnering all the electoral votes of one state, Senator Lodge would divide electoral units among the contenders in proportion to the popular vote. And to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lodge Plan | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...fast becoming a contemporary legend. Brother Osbert has already distilled four bestselling books out of the way he remembers his father and the family's idiosyncrasies. Now that Miss Sitwell's recent poetry (as well as a series of critical tributes) is being published in America, U.S. readers can see for themselves why sister Edith has become one of England's most highly regarded living poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cassandra from the Garden | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...professor is one of America's foremost art connoisseurs and the drawings are the kind of works most admired by him. Forty different museums, galleries, and private collections loaned the exhibits to the Museum. They are examples only of European masters from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries, including "old favorites" and rare, but lesser known works. Names like Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Van Dyck adorn the canvasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sachs Gets Fogg Exhibit; Gives His Estate to College | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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