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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After such a poor season as 1949, and when the local press is running story after story on "what to do about Harvard football," no responsible official should say anything until the hysteria dies down. The next football season doesn't begin until September 1. Nor should such an official...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

It went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Conant was not offered the post, according to the source, because he had been "definitely offered the A.E.C. chairmanship in 1946, prior to Lilienthal's nomination" and had refused. President Truman does not like to be turned down and it is unlikely that he will offer the post of Conant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Seems Doubtful For Atomic Chief | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

Final scars left in back of Lamont Library during its construction were removed yesterday when landscapers finished work on the new Dudley Memorial. It replaces the one torn down when Lamont was built.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dudley Memorial Near Lamont Library Completed | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

Military security has terribly hampered Vannevar Bush's discussion of the prospect of future war and its effect on what he calls "our society of free men." Bush, who as wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development probably knows as much about the impact of science on...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Science and Civilization | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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