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Word: cleveland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been good showmanship, but the very existence of a game against such an unfit opponent as Boston University may yet backfire this Saturday. Anyone who saw the game must realize that B.U. is probably the most appallingly weak eleven that has appeared in the Harvard Stadium since Grover Cleveland sat in the Presidential chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flashy Showmanship Slaughters Boston, But May Backfire in New Haven Fracas | 11/27/1945 | See Source »

...place on the hill. They brought flowers and votive candles, and ailing children and crippled sisters, and the wept-over photographs of sons killed in the war. They watched, hopefully and awestruck, while Joe kept his nightly vigil. The crowd grew; people came from as far away as Cleveland; last week, on the 17th night, 30,000 jammed into the dirty lot and the nearby streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Shrine in The Bronx | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...principal of New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy in 1914, he found the school deep in traditions and a $250,000 debt. It had been founded the year Cornwallis surrendered, by John Phillips, whose nephew, Samuel Phillips, started Andover. Daniel Webster went to Exeter; Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland sent their sons. Other Exonian notables: Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Banker Thomas W. Lament (now president of the trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Mr. Perry | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Historian Milton Waldman, a Cleveland-born expatriate, who has lived in England for more than 20 years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Robin | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...clear about one thing: there is no defense against a surprise attack with atomic bombs." With this statement as his text, President Conant Tuesday addressed a sermon to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Denies Possibilities Of Atomic Bomb Defense | 11/23/1945 | See Source »

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