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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before World War II, the Army Engineers approved a project calling for dredging a four-acre swamp in the river. The congressional bill to provide the necessary $33,000 was vetoed. Thereupon a majority of the voters, some 200, gathered at the Fire Station and decided to build the harbor themselves, and to date they have spent over $40,000 on it. The Coast Guard used the harbor as a wartime base for patrol craft, and there is an active Coast Guard auxiliary unit there today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Foreign Ministers' deputies were instructed to draft an Austrian treaty and submit it to their bosses no later than Sept. i. During the next U.N. Assembly session in New York in September, the Big Four would try to arrange for another Foreign Ministers' meeting. This was what diplomats call "keeping the door open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Limited Truce | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: We Believe in Each Other | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement, 1949 | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

...these victories have been at distances under two miles, which theoretically should make tomorrow's four-mile varsity classic an entirely different proposition, defying comparison. However, a long race will improve the Crimson's chances of victory, since stroke Bill Curwen sets a low pace which is especially effective over longer distances...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crew Faces Yale Tomorrow In Bid for Unbeaten Season | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

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