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Word: faites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional attempt to prognosticate Lampy's executive board on the day before the election, and then prematurely to announce the "results" as a fait accompli, the CRIMSON yesterday laid an ostrich egg in correctly picking only one man out of an executive board of eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWIE, RICHARDSON NEW LAMPY PRESIDENT, IBIS | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Recognizing the limitation of outside guests at Carnival as a "fait accompli," Palaeopitus last night released a statement in explanation of the restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Governing Body at Dartmouth Forced to Limit Carnival Outsiders | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...Yorker was evidently unaware that white mice are no longer an fait in London drawing rooms. More than 20 colors are now available-bred by experts who give mouse shows, regard mouse breeding as Big Business and to whom white mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mice Beautiful | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...president has presented his college with a fait accompli. In its larger aspects there will be relatively little difference between the Yale plan and the Harvard system of "generals". For Yale, however, it is a complete break with the past; formerly an undergraduate merely collected a sufficient number of course credits to receive his diploma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CATCHES UP | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...friendship to Italy and an example of intelligent European policy. It serves also to point the rational way whereby, without any need ot diplomatic contortion and useless controversies, it is possible to solve practically and in a form satisfactory to everyone the problem of the Italian fait accompli in East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Might, Right & de Facto | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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