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Word: campaigners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been obsessed with one thought: beat Michigan. His scouts had charted Michigan's last two games of 1948 and brought their G-2 reports to headquarters atop the gym at West Point. Movies of two previous Army-Michigan games (in 1945-46) were not enough for the campaign that Blaik planned. He rounded up newsreels of Michigan playing other teams and spent much of the winter studying them in slow-motion with his staff of assistants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Campaign. Though the new hotel's fame quickly spread, it has never been a big moneymaker. In its first ten years it lost $12 million. Last year, the Waldorf managed to net $657,981 on a gross of $18.7 million. But the profit percentage is slipping. For the first eight months of 1949, the Waldorf grossed $11.8 million, netted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: No. 16 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Western German elections in August found nearly all the candidates plugging away at "German National Rights" as their campaign issue. The election also featured groups of uniformed bully boys which the press euphemistically called "splinten parties"; the wrapping was different but the contents were the same. U.S. students in Europe this summer heard Germans parrot the same phrase again and again: "Hitler was all right; he did us a lot of good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Nazis | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, and varsity football captain Howard E. Houston '50, will step to the University Theater stage at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to help celebrate the "kick-off" of Cambridge's annual Red Feather campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger, Houston Start Charities Drive | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...Miriam Van Waters, head of the Framingham state prison for women, brought her state-wide campaign to arouse public interest in modern penology to the Canterbury Club (Episcopal) last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters Hits 'Pagan' Penology | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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