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Word: firsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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William H. Hastie LL.B. '33, a 45 year old Law School graduate from Knoxville, Tennessee, was sworn in Thursday as the first Negro judge of a United States District Court of Appeals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appeals Court Gets 1st Negro, Law '33 | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Business School, Grown Through 41 Years, Feeds the Country with Leading Executives | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...three ex-Advocate editors who broke away to form their own magazine have no idea when their first issue will be published. A joint statement by A. Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Noris W. Darrell '51 revealed last night that "It may not appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Stories Threatens Release of New Magazine | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...first of two earlier releases by the trio had reported that the magazine would appear before the Yale game. A later release said that it would "be out before Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Stories Threatens Release of New Magazine | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...first attempt to gather student opinion in the current controversy over the decline of Harvard football, the CRIMSON will conduct a poll today in all dining halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Give Grid Opinion In Poll Today | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

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