Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that true about my name being Anderson?" she asked. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted. I think it is the funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked him: 'Why haven't you told me?' " Two days later she had an answer back. Her father told her that he had changed his name 70 years ago and never thought to tell...
...steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
Both teams have played one game before this, their Ivy League opener. Columbia turned back a none too strong Amherst eleven by three touchdowns and Harvard was overwhelmed by powerful Stanford. For better or worse, the game disclosed one glaring Crimson weakness which the Lions will undoubtedly try to capitalize on this afternoon...
...left with no better notion of the Labor Government's position than before. That Labor would receive its expected vote of confidence was apparent before the debate commenced; the only reasonable conclusion is that devaluation was not the real issue in question, but that Parliament instead had in the back of its head the impending elections...
...Physics Department expects Professor Schwinger back in Cambridge on about October 10. In the meantime, his fall course--Physics 253, Advanced Quantum Mechanics--is being handled by Sidney Borowitz, instructor in Physics...