Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cowboy hero's only child, William Jr., promptly sued to break the will, which had left him nothing. He charged that Father William had been "mentally incompetent...
...field of atomic energy, Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site...
Barnes's plan is to have his foreign Tribmen become "specialists in ideas rather than areas." Once his stable of world-trotting pundits is trained (one in diplomacy, others in business, labor, nuclear fission, etc.), he expects to move them as stories break. The Trib would rely on wire services for the first 24 hours of an important story, then close in with an expert who would stay with it as long as it made news...
...made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...
...undergraduate housing, however, a short term crisis is foreseen by Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, but with the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building being readied to receive any possible overflow, all new registrants will be housed, he said. A break in the number of applications rolling into the Office has made the College housing picture considerably brighter...