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Word: day (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good many Faculty members will lose sleep between the third and sixth of February. The third is the last day of the final examination period, and, according to a preliminary announcement handed to the Faculty last week, all "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9" courses will hold examinations on that last day. At least five of these courses are large ones, involving from 100 to 200 bluebooks, each crammed with essay answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Schedule | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Administrative Board has voted that all upperclassmen on probation shall be required to register at the Dean's Office off the day of their last class meeting before the Christmas recess and on the first day after the recess. Such students are also required to attend their last and first classes before and after the Christmas recess. A special letter will be sent to each man on probation regarding this requirement...

Author: By W. J. Bender, | Title: Bender Discloses Attendance Rules For Xmas Recess | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...oath, Roper said, was originally written by a. Joint Committee of all the armed services and intended primarily for men inducted in time of mobilization. Because current application of the disputed clause differs throughout the three service branches. Navy administrators will meet "in a day or so to determine if the language of the clause is proper for everybody," Roper stated...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Navy Will Check 'Informer Clause' To Determine Correct Application | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...known where they will strike next? Even now, privacy in the College rooms is an outworn concept. Eventually when you come home, the little men won't leave. They will stay there 4 hours a day, sleep in your beds and use up your toothpaste. Then the revolution will be at hand, and human rights, will disappear in the wake of bloody violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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