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Word: k (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fontenay-sous-Bois, watching their prey. Others, pretending to collect alms in the neighborhood, used minicameras to photograph his visitors. D.S.T. men with movie cameras filmed his regular rendezvous with another man in Paris' lonely Rue Botzaris. They noticed that before each clandestine meeting he chalked the letter k on a nearby wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Handwriting on the Wall | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Handwriting on the Wall | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...athletes, given either the drug amphetamine or a placebo, were tested nearly 800 times. Drs. Gene M. Smith and Henry K. Beecher conducted the Harvard study, which was correlated with similar work done at Springfield College, and with a national survey of coaches...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Study at College Shows 'Pep Pills' Aid Athletes | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...gesture of good will and greeting, the University will also probably bestow an honorary upon Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, Dean of Students at Rutgers University. The CRIMSON learned several days ago from very reliable sources that Mrs. Bunting will probably become the next president of Radcliffe College, succeeding Wilbur K. Jordan. Jordan, himself, is also a strong possibility for an honorary...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Speculation over Honoraries Grows; Big Crime Contest Open to Students | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee to choose a successor to President Wilbur K. Jordan, declined last night to comment on the report of Mrs. Bunting's selection. "I have no comment--either to confirm or deny," Schlesinger said...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Dean of Students at Rutgers May Become Next Radcliffe President | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

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