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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, May 1--The House passed a bill tonight continuing rent control but not the way President Truman wanted it done. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, authorizes landlords to rails rent 15 percent in return for a two-year lease if the tenant agrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes New Bill Extending Rent Control Through December; Additional Aid to Mexico Granted | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

Although the original twelve-man committee saw the important interconnection between preparatory and college work, the new committee, which has done a satisfactory job thus far in carrying out the college side of the proposals, seems temporarily to have overlooked important measures which it could and should take to guarantee the other phase of this program. Naturally any efforts which are to be made will be of an advisory nature, but the ideas of the University on secondary education should not have to be sought. Committees for joint study coupled with a publicizing program, both under the direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clarion Call | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

...until the university's regular class day is done does Veterans College begin. By 10:30 p.m., when the special session ends, the double-timing Brown instructors who teach it are usually a pale shade of grey. V.C. students, who cannot join fraternities or compete for varsity teams, hit the books hard, with President Henry M. Wriston's warning in their ears: "This is not a Government gravy train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Takes the Man | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...support program, farmers have maintained production at about one-third greater than the prewar level. "This has of course done more," Anderson claimed, "to hold food prices down and assure relatively plentiful food supplies in this country than anything else. . . . Current price support activities are minor and are exerting almost no effect on food prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Price of Plenty | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...story begins with a sentence as direct as a news lead: "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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