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Word: due (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't going to be as easy as that. Last week, two Britons were making the rounds of countries to which the bulk of Britain's ?3,750,000,000 sterling debt is due. And the Britons-as becomes debtors -were asking, not telling, the creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whose Mercy? | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Somewhat inadequate to date is the teamwork of Preston and Greeley, the new starting defense. Both excellent skaters individually, they were sometimes split by Holy Cross and the B.A.A. Unicorns to allow occasional solo jaunts goalward. Should this due tighten up tomorrow, the Big Green may find themselves hard pressed...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...Holloway plan, recently passed by Congress as Public Law 729 and due to go into operation next fall, requires trainees to take four full courses in Naval Science, Mathematics through trigonometry, plus a full year of college physics. The Faculty resolutions also demand that students fulfill the usual College language, concentration and distribution plan requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Move Passes Navy's Training Plan | 2/12/1947 | See Source »

...usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs. . . . Corpses froze and could not be drawn from the sheets,. .. It was commonly supposed that the great increase of rocks in Derbyshire was due to . . . the solidification of unfortunate wayfarers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Great Frost | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Children may now legally study the Bible in Illinois' public schools. After due consideration, the State Supreme Court has said it is all right. But Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Camel's Nose? | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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