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Word: avon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Outposts Stretch To All Corners of the Earth | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

Harvard owns and operates Harvard House in stratford-on-Avon in England. The House, which attracts many visitors, was the home of John Harvard's mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Outposts Stretch To All Corners of the Earth | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

Dollars v. Dreams. In the current issue of Feature Publications' Young Romance, the original love comic, a spoiled deb learns that not all her father's money can buy the ideals and dreams of a starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love on a Dime | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Good House . . . Dime Defective . . . Avon Books. All the Girls We Loved, by de Percds, a new Hemingway. Two bits. What the hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...local printing plant, one of the largest of its kind in England. Shakespeare recordings are snapped up in the town's music stores. Booksellers do a whopping business. Says one: "Everybody wants to buy an edition of Shakespeare so he can write 'Bought in Stratford-upon-Avon' on the flyleaf." The Bardolators also pay admission to Shakespeare's birthplace, to Anne Hathaway's cottage, and to the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bard Clicks in Sticks | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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