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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...poor peasants. In fact, he is always around. I planted a fig tree here one day. I have held this land for 15 years, and never a tree on it. I want a tree. But Corradi rushed up shouting, 'Who planted this fig tree?' He made me cut it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...basketball squad's first game against the Hoyas, Shepard has cut his squad to a flying squadron of ten men. His road crew comprises the customary starting five--John Rockwell, Ed Smith, Jim Gabler, Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey--plus Bill Prior, Cliff Crosby, Dick Covey, John Stevenson, and Quent Stiles...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers to Play in Washington; Yardlings Topple Tech Freshmen, 64-59 | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...assigning definite figures of "historical" size, the Faculty did not cut any department. Where there were inconsistencies, it added...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

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