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Word: gardner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company of Gardner, Mass, (pop. 20,397) has a shiny new truck, a new office on the town square at the corner of Vernon and Parker Streets. It also has a new president and owner: comfortable, pipe-smoking Harold Emerson Greenwood. More than all these it has a new legend for thrifty Gardner folk: how 45-year-old "Bob" Greenwood bought the whole works-the silvered storage tank, the grimy plant down by the Boston & Maine tracks, the mains connecting with 800-odd Gardner homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: One-Man Gas Company | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Student pilots from 382 out of the 435 colleges taking part in the Civil Aeronautics Authority's civilian pilot training program have already indicated their intention to participate in the national competition for the $15,000 Shell Aviation Scholarships and awards, it was announced today by Major Leater D. Gardner, executive vice-president of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGES COMPETE IN PILOTS' COMPETITION | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

Charles S. Gardner, assistant professor of Chinese, Edwin O. Reischauer, instructor in far eastern languages; John K. Fairbank, instructor in history; and William Thompson, James Richard Jewett professor of Arabic, trace the history of Asia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langer to Publish Encyclopaedia on History of World | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

...CASE OF THE BAITED HOOK-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, the lawyer who always gets there ahead of the cops, takes a fat fee one rainy night to keep a masked girl out of trouble. When several unmasked females turn up in the ensuing murder case, he gets mad, comes through in his usual inspired style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...play, was introduced in the first act: music by Pete Rollins and words by Bayard Clark. With proper handling, this song should easily reach high national popularity ratings. The other outstanding Rollins songs were "I Want to Be Investigated," "Un Chico Vico," and "Lonely Moon." Besides Bacon, Franklyn Tyler, Gardner Pierson, and Bayard Clark are especially good in their parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

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