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...Lampooners have found plenty of trouble (and publicity) for themselves in their long string of semi-intentional faux pas, and when, in 1933, they made off with the Sacred Cod from the State House on Beacon Hill, the Crimson had this...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgis, | Title: Colorful Crimson History Began with Off-Color Magenta... | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...Picked last week as the Kaiser-Frazer representative for Newburgh and Beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Thank You, Mr. Fish | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America in Rome | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Bevin, a brown hulk between his Russian adversary and his American friend, Stettinius, staring down the line of his cigarette at the table, or when he spoke as no diplomat in his time had publicly spoken, revolving his great, unhandsome head as though it were a vocal beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: It May Work | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Beaver School for girls started in a stable on Boston's proud Beacon Hill, now inhabits a million-dollar home in suburban Brookline. Not quite so "progressive" as it once was, Beaver draws a set of well-heeled bobby-soxers (42 of Boston's current crop of 130 debs are Beaver girls) and succeeds pretty well in making scholars of them. But Beaver only paid off $10,000 of its $262,000 original mortgage. Last month a Boston bank, tired of the green mold forming around Beaver's I.O.U.s, threatened to foreclose. One alumna dumped her four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Like Beavers | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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