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Word: ebbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have loomed large if not largest in the campaign was at least half-forgotten. At Amarillo, Tex. last week and at Sacramento, Calif. Candidate Willkie told Democrats they had to choose between the tradition of voting for their party and the tradition against a third term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings were transferred from the marble Senate Caucus room to the cozier Claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Sleeping Duty | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...days later Japan brought its ebb-&-flow, bluff-&-counterbluff attack to the flood for a fourth time, smashed through to a final decision. The French agreed to permit three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War or Peace? | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

There comes a tide in the affairs of Hollywood when pictures sink to the ebb of human endurance. One of the lowest ebb-tides occurred during the past summer's torrid months. But as fall has come, and movie-house owners can no longer feature air-cooling above the highest priced star, the tide has turned. The program now showing at the University is ample evidence of the fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Proctors in outside dormitories are: Lawrence F. Ebb '39, of Dorchester, John P. Floyd, A.M. '39, of Pasadena, Calif.; Ralph E. Ladd Jr., A.M. '36, of Ipswich, James S. Lanigan '39, of Greeley, Nebr.; and Eugene H. Walker '37, of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS ARE ANNOUNCED | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

...Patohogue, L, I., N. Y., A. B. Indina '40, Bernheimer scholarship; James F. O'Connor Jr., of New York City, A. B. Columbia '40, William Choney Brown Jr. scholarship; Daniel C. Draper, of Morgantown, W. Va., A., B. West Virginia '40, John L. Cadwalador memorial scholarship; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, A, B. Harvard '39, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Richard F. Newton, of Ligonier, Ind., A. B. Indina University '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; John D. Ramsey, of Kaneas City, Mo., A. B. University of Kansas '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS IN COLLEGES OF NATION GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW SCHOOL | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

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