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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discount. In Hamilton, Ont., the thief who stole Mrs. Frank Gnup's $50 set of golf clubs telephoned the next day and offered to sell everything back at half price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Deutscher's Stalin: A Political Biography [TIME, Oct. 10], you mention that Stalin in Siberian exile under the Czar received food parcels and picture postcards from his mother-in-law. Can you tell me whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive such gifts from the folks back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...club by a verbal promise by this date, there is considerable changing of cards at this time. This means that a student receiving two or more cards turns in the unused ones to the president of the club whose bid he accepts. The president than rushes them back to a central office, which is constantly checked by runners from each organization. As soon as a club's card is turned back in, another must be sent out to the next man on the "desirable" list, and so on until the club's quota is most nearly filled...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Yale, however, was strong enough to come back and hand Jaakko Mikkola's squad its fifth straight defeat by the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Loses To Princeton, Yale Harriers | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...will probably have enough work to keep him from getting bored. Social Relations is still actively oozing out from its original component subjects; new research needs to be tied back into the field. One example which is currently concerning Mr. Parsons is a study of the ambitions of high school boys; it has to consider both the psychological and sociological forces acting on these youths. It must mix all this material with batteries of statistics, with reams of physical and cultural data. As far as we can make out, this is where Mr. Parsons comes in and does some integrating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel Ties In | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

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