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Word: breaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first World War came the Boston Police Strike of 1919. At the suggestion of President A. Lawrence Lowell, John Harvard became John Law for a brief, traitorous period. Over 200 quasi-quislings from the College stepped into the breach...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Grim Police, Gay Students Battling Since 163 | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

Suspecting that there might be a few million soap-opera fans with nothing to do of mornings, one sponsor has worked out a plan to fill the breach. Beginning next month, NBC will record Procter & Gamble's afternoon soapers, Young Doctor Malone and The Brighter Day, from CBS lines, then play them back on the NBC network a day later. Cost of the service to P. & G., which spends several million dollars a year on 13 such programs, will be relatively small, since all the expensive work on the show goes into the live CBS performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rich Lather | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

William B. Drexler '55, president of the Boston Cinema Society, yesterday charged City Censor Walter Milliken with breach of faith in the licensing of "Birth of a Nation," the film the Cinema Society proposed to show tomorrow and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cinema Society' Refused License; Cancel 'Birth of a Nation' Showing | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

...months Winston Churchill's Tories smiled in smug satisfaction at the division in Labor's ranks, and sometimes slyly tried to widen the breach. Last week the Laborites were gazing hopefully at a small rift in the ranks of the Conservatives. It was led by a group of young Tory backbenchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Little Goading | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...earnings in such a way as to represent that it had made a profit of about $4,000,000 in December 1947. "This representation was $3,100,000 short of the truth." This failure to make full disclosure not only "violated the Securities Act of 1933" but was "a breach of the contract," even though Otis & Co. had all the facts and had helped prepare the prospectus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Latest Laugh for Eaton | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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