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Word: card (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling outfits are having a busy week, too, as many of the toughest duels on the card are placed in the early part of the season. Tomorrow the powerful '43 diamondmen oppose B. U. and the lacrosse ten takes to the field with the stickmen from Phillips Andover. On the week-end, the nine meets Lawrence Academy, and the cross-wielders trade blows with New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 21 Contests Mark Busy Week For Crimson Spring Athletics | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

After some dandyism, café girls and card-playing, rediscovered God in The Masses. Active in 1905-07 Revolution. Jailed three months with seven revolutionists condemned to death; learned much. In Dostoevskian-Marxian appetite for poverty lived among the lowliest in Odessa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Born Lucky | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Study cards for next year are due today at 5 o'clock in 2 University Hall. A student who does not hand in his card on time (whether or not be expects to be in college next year) is liable for a $5 fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDY CARDS | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

Since psychologists must always have a conclusion: "[It] would seem to indicate that our school system lays too much emphasis upon 'failing a test,' 'having a poor report card,' 'being late to school' and 'being left back in school.' We cannot easily reduce children's worries about family matters, but we might very well do so in regard to school matters that are not very significant for the child's future growth and development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worries of Childhood | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...regime was to subsidize nearly all top bowling and billiard* players. The new, having found these hirelings expensive and unproductive, retains only a few, makes them work for their pay. One of the few: Trick Billiardist Charley Peterson, who has lectured on billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between the cubes, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spittoons Out, Profits Up | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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