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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the folklore of Wall Street, a rising market needs a periodic shaking out to give it firmer footing for a new rise. Such a shakeout might well come, simply because enough people think it will and, by selling in preparation for the shakeout, cause it to happen. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twenty Years Agrowing | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Another accomplishment of the Council which has received little publicity concerns segregation in the dormitories. It has been the practice in the past to assign a Negro, Jewish, or Oriental student a roommate of the same group; exceptions to this rule have ordinarily been made only when two individual students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Council's Work | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

* In one of the minor ironies of history, Grant's resignation was accepted by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The path of West Pointer Davis had already crossed that of another coming man: in the Black Hawk War (1832), where he served as a lieutenant of regulars, Davis had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captain from Ohio | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

In the other House baseball game, Winthrop's last Straus Trophy hopes faded completely when Adams came from behind to tie the Puritans, 4 to 4. Bill Goodman, Gold Coast catcher, singled home the run that gave Adams a dead-lock. Both pitchers, Rog Davis of Adams, and Mel Zurier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Clinches Straus Trophy On Baseball Victory Over Eliot | 5/25/1950 | See Source »

Puritan Bill Erman won the javelin. His 143-foot toss was nearly 13 feet ahead of Deacon Frank Manheim's effort, with Gene Kearney of Adams third and Bellboy Oscar DePriest fourth. Roger Davis of Adams was a close second in the broad jump, followed by Ronnie Breslow of Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Pace Field in House Track | 5/23/1950 | See Source »

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