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Word: beaverisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian village bumpkin who all his life has outsmarted city slickers, William Maxwell Aitken "The Beaver" skyrocketed from selling sewing machines, cement and insurance, in which he had little faith (even today self-reliant Beaverbrook carries no life or personal property insurance), until at 31 he dominated a Canadian cement company and liquidated his dominion holdings for $5,000,000 in order to go to the mother country and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: National Government | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...thrusting Max sold to increasingly doddering old Andrew Bonar Law some life insurance, became the Prime Minister's closest friend, later "Canadian eye witness" at the front during World War 1 and in 1918 Minister of In formation and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1917 The Beaver began making a huge Fleet Street fortune by giving London a cockeyed version of low-brow U. S. journalism. "I have all the money any man can want!" Lord Beaver brook likes to boast, slapping his trouser pocket for dramatic emphasis while conservative Britons shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: National Government | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Robert G. Axtel Catherine Lawrence, Wellesley Winslow B. Ayer Patricia Miller, Smith Edward R. Bacon Adell Voss, Swampscott Grover C. Bacon Jay Prince, Cambridge Edwin T. Baker Mary Favorite, Brimmer-May School William H. Baker Edith Alexander, Newton Stephen P. Baldwin Joy Kidder, Concord Benjamin N. Barksdale Janet Harwood, Beaver Richard S. Barrows Helen Francis, Wellesley George Bartlett Ann Folsom, Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil Hart, Packer Institute Robert G. Bigelow Marian Prentiss, Columbus, Ohio Carroll Binder, Jr. Carol Jones, Wellesley Nathaniel L. Blanchard Lee Burnett, Southborough Charles M. Bliss Margaret Soule, Wellesley Richard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 200 Couples to Attend '43's Jubilee | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

Under the leadership of Malcolm Holmes '28, the orchestra will play at the Harvard Club of Richmond on Saturday evening, March 30; at William and Mary, March 31; at Sweet Briar, April 3; at Arlington Hall Junior College, April 4; and at Beaver College in Philadelphia, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY WILL TOUR SCHOOLS OF SOUTH | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Pierian's program will include works by both contemporary and classical composers. At Sweet Briar and Beaver joint concerts with the college glee clubs will be held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY WILL TOUR SCHOOLS OF SOUTH | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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