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Word: col (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, President Conant awoke to find a steamroller on his lawn, kindness of M.I.T. Recently, the children of Lt. Col. Arthur Small, ROTC director, California Institute of Technology, discovered on the lawn of their Pasadena home a life-size, F-84 Thunderjet, minus its wings. The police and F.B.I. finally traced the gift back to ten California Tech students. The Techmen admitted stealing it from a campus exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: California Tech, Like M.I.T., Puts Gift in Official's Yard | 2/14/1953 | See Source »

Court of Last Resort. To the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, the evidence seemed weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Case of Silas Rogers | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Harry (A Walk in the Sun) Brown, the picture effectively depicts a war of ruins, rubble and mud-spattered patrols. The eight iron men are less convincing: they are types rather than real soldiers, e.g., the nervous G.I. (Richard Kiley), the philosophical G.I. (Nick Dennis), the amorous G.I. (Bonar Col-leano). But the film transfers the play to the screen with a muscular compactness and economy. Although it is only a minor cinematic skirmish, Eight Iron Men strikes an authentic ring of realism from the monotony of war and the soldiers' code of comradeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...weeks ago the main speaker at the PU meeting was Simon Gerson, secretary of the Communist Party of New York. Next week's featured attraction will be Col. Robert R. McCormick, Yale '03. Speakers in the past have included Harold Stassen, Robert Taft, Norman Thomas, Earl Browder, Justice Robert H. Jackson, and Justice Tom Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Union Collects Speakers, Is Testing-Ground for Legislatures | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

...Army may refuse draft deferments to 15 percent of the freshmen members of R.O.T.C., Lt. Col. Trevor N. DuPuy, professor of Military Science, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deferments in Doubt | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

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