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Word: downers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special scholarship at Harvard if his name is Murphy or Baxendale; if he was descended from Lady Ann Mowlson, Greek parents or certain gentlemen named Reed, Holyoke, Hudson, Borden, Anderson, Bright, Downer, Haven and Pennoyer; if he lives along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. in Iowa; or if he was once a newsboy. He may get a scholarship at Princeton or University of Pennsylvania if his father worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tulane if his grandfather fought in the Confederate Army, at Dartmouth if he is "a religious man from Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Collegians' Baedeker | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Charles Downer scholarship to Richard B. Woodbury '39, of Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARS WIN AWARDS FOR GRADUATE STUDY | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

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