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Word: elliott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mapping out a plan of attack on next fall's housing front is turning Dr. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, into a master strategist. When an undergraduate, he had an untidy roommate who owned fourteen suits and left them in fourteen heaps. Therefore, Dr. Perkins looks forward with sympathetic agony to the Spartan task of cramming 440 students into a house built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

Information Please (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Elliott and Faye Roosevelt pose as experts with John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

After Mr. Silkin spoke, the muttering continued. Said aristocratic, elderly Clarence Elliott, owner of a charming old converted farmhouse in Bedwell Lane: "Of course, Silkin is not quite a gentleman, d'you think? Mind you, I don't know anything about politics, don't care either, but I'm bitterly pro-Tory, and I think it's a damned shame to pull down beautiful property like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: At the Stiff Oak | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Since the end of gas rationing, Harvard pedestrians have protested their traditional role as fair game for Cambridge drivers. Once again the old cartoon of the staid Brahmin matron squatting for a running start across the Square touches sympathetic notes among the local sidewalk gentry. Professor William Yandell Elliott's prewar guess that no battle could be quite so dangerous as crossing Harvard Square during rush hour did not consider the possibilities of the Atom Bomb, but the analogy is still too close for comfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Dance | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...Words & Ginger Ale. For ten days the six "Christian Commandos"-all hearty Methodist ministers-had been on an evangelizing pub-crawl in Plymouth. Their reception was not always as hearty as at the Tom Elliott. Said one of them: "Sometimes we're accompanied by a continual barrage of strong swearing, but Bird here plays the accordion so loud they can't make themselves heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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