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Word: halled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning the 303rd season of Harvard, these men, with an average age of just 18, will step into Memorial Hall, sign their names a dozen times, and step out holding in their hands four years of future Harvard history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1005 Freshmen to Enter September 23d As Harvard's 303d Season Begins With Smallest First Class in Several Years | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Official explanation of this downward tendency is not forthcoming from University Hall, but it is believed that President Conant's speeches last spring in favor of limiting college enrollments may have had some application at home. But because of the restriction of the Freshman Class to 1000 by Corporation rule, registration cannot vary more than slightly in any year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1005 Freshmen to Enter September 23d As Harvard's 303d Season Begins With Smallest First Class in Several Years | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...Deal is Tammany Hall with a Harvard accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan. Purgee O'Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named their own primary candidate: Allen Welsh Dulles, 45, lawyer, onetime (1916-26) State Department underling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Purge's Progress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting value to a 20th-Century community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cat | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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