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Word: displays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all the color and pageantry of a combined Annapolis-West Point display, Harvard's 1600 men of war, swinging into line yesterday for the largest full-dress military review in the University's history, showed the thousands who looked on that Harvard is doing its share in the war effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Army and Navy Units Reviewed As Thousands Watch | 5/12/1942 | See Source »

Thousands of street lamps have been painted so that no light shines directly upwards, and all display and advertising signs have been ordered permanently extinguished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Threatens Blackout Unless Dimout Perfected | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first but not the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design for Living | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Humorous Side"--of this war--is the title of another display of current cartoon originals which have appeared in The New Yorker done by such artists as Garrett and Robert Day. Other problems are the "Showing of a Single Masterpiece," and "A Theme in Reproductions--The Apocalypse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Museum Exhibit Class Displays Wartime Art | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...will be devoted to a plain round-up of unrelated items rather than to any central theme. First of all, I want to call attention again to the symposium in Winthrop House Junior Common Room this evening, at which most of Harvard's active jazz players will congregate to display their talents. I don't know just what procedure will be followed, but probably there will be a small band or two formed, so that each soloist will have solid support during his innings. The entries are not closed yet, and even if you play only a slide whistle, remember...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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