Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot House came home with a close 12 to 6 victory over Lowell, and Dudley upset a strong Adams eleven, 12 to 7 yesterday, as the Inter-House football league roared full speed into its second day of play...
...information after you have it. At one time during the Paris Peace Conference the then U.S. Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, was too busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that day's session. At its close an aide handed Laguerre a sheet of paper written in Byrnes's famed old-style court-stenographer's shorthand. The trouble was that not even Byrnes's own aides, who were used to it, could read the script, and the Secretary himself was not available to decipher...
...Close and cordial cooperation with our neighbors of the American continent...
...eight years since the 1940 census, Los Angeles had absorbed a population roughly equal to that of Cincinnati's (455,610). It now claims a population of 1,904,725. It had passed Detroit and is pressing close to Philadelphia. Every month about 10,000 more people move in, to stay. Now the city was in the midst of another vast and significant change. To its agricultural and mineral wealth it was adding a solid industrial base. It now ranks first in four industries: aircraft, motion pictures oil-well equipment, sportswear manufacture. It is second in two: automobile assembly...
Madrasis could scarcely have chosen a better way to honor the Mahatma. "If I were appointed dictator for one hour for all India," Gandhi once wrote, "the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms*. . . Exceptions would be made for Europeans...