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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before 8:30 one morning last week, an olive drab Cadillac rolled down the ramp to the underground parking lot of the Pentagon Building. Its passenger, cap set ever so slightly at a rake, stepped out, pulled down his trim, suntan Eisenhower jacket and strode toward the elevator. Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Harvard's ten-man unit commands a healthy chunk of 826 votes. Less articulate chapter representatives from the grass-roots do not seem hesitant to listen to counsel that the delegation-hep on national AVC problems and politics-is happy to dispense. Chapter chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 and delegation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

*Actually, Eton is nearly 507 years old; it was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but Old Etonians were too busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Schools | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

With or Against? With the blessing of National Commander Max H. Sorensen, the C.W.V.'s publications committee got busy tapping the "broadest possible sources" for information about Catholics who might be flirting with Communism: they pored over the daily press, dug into reference libraries, kept their ears to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two-Timing Catholics? | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Even before the end of the football season, newly-appointed basketball coach Bill Barelay was busy experimenting with the team whose predecessor had represented New England in the NCAA hoop tourney. Barelay introduced a modified western style of ball, stressed teamplay, and produced a quintet that managed to win more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burdened But Unbowed, John Harvard Faced Peace Again | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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