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Word: dormant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons last week heard echoes of slogans which had been dormant for decades: "The House of Lords must be mended or ended," and "Who shall rule, the Peers or the People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Peers Among Socialists | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...Maddux' strategy really paid off against the BLC as Captain Hans Estin, recently moved to attack, sparked a previously dormant attack with his three goals and five assists. Estin, taking over the berth of last year's star Jay Hurley, harried the BLC defense with a brilliant exhibition of dodging and back-of-the-goal play-making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Batters BLC; Estin and Gregg Lead Attack | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...more proficient neighbor, then it is quite likely that other groups would gather for a competently directed discussion of existentialism or modern art. Resident professors and tutors could again mix with students on the informal House level. A fully developed program would do much to bring the long-dormant House plan to life again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Self-Start | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

LeCorbeilller is not content, however, to let his philosophical speculation on science lie dormant in back issues of the Monthly. Three times a week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le Corbeiller: Philosophizing Physicist. . . | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

...corollary effect of Harvard's examination system is the complete paralysis that occurs in the College's non-cramming activities during the examination and reading periods. Lectures and meetings disappear, all sports temporarily cease, and any none-course intellectual occupation becomes dormant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

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