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Word: andrew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had also left the city their monuments to culture. There stood Andrew Carnegie's blackened sandstone museum, whose bilious, soot-streaked walls were hung with a weird jumble of oil paintings, whose cavernous halls housed Diplodocus carnegiei ("Dippy," the dinosaur) brought from a Wyoming fossil dump. Beside a ravine which belched forth the smoke of locomotives perched the Carnegie Institute. Soaring into the city's grey sky was the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning-42 stories of classrooms and offices piled one on top of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Smithfield Street hung out his shingle as a lawyer. He knew all the laws on foreclosures and he traded in other men's recklessness. In 1870 he had founded T. Mellon & Sons and had gone into private banking. Into this enterprise went two of his shrewdest sons-Andrew William and Richard Beatty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Yale polio cases have no parallel at Harvard. Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, Hygiene Department physician, reported last night that there is no infantile paralysis at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Case of Polio Cancels Yale Grid Contest | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

Hanover police chief Andrew J. Ferguson said he believed there was no malice or premeditation involved, but that Devee was guilty of poor judgment in firing a .23 caliber telescope equipped target rifle at beer cans floating is the Connecticut River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Senior Answers Shooting Charge Tomorrow | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

Holworthy 4. Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39 6G and Richard M. Ludwig 4G; Holworthy 20, David G. Gill '45 and Borden F. Beck, Jr. '45 2L; Lionel A-21, Robert L. Fischelis '49 and Donald T. Trautman '46 2L; Massachusetts A-31, Andrew Eklund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proctors Return To Ride Herd on Yard Inhabitants | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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