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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinto culture." Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern California before the white man arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...easy it is, lo! even in the hallowed halls of Cambridge, Mass., to acquire passing grades without knowledge. Conversation might be a barometer: is there more discussion about knowledge gained in College courses or about the possibility of "bulling through" them without doing the work? One would guess the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

Friday brought a series of forums on Bench, Bar, and Government; Medicine and Public Health; Finance and Industry; and General Education. The latter featured speeches by President Conant (second left above), Benjamin F. Wright, Chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education (extreme left), and John H. Finlay, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature (extreme right). The meeting was called to order by Daniel A. Newhall '06, former head of the Philadelphia Harvard Club (center), and chaired by Provost Buck (second right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Mob Philly... | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

...Iolanthe," its run extended through tomorrow night by popular demand, is an essential for anyone who wants to see the D'Oyly Carte Company at its 1948 best. The latter half of this week sees a return to the Mikado. Then the troupe leaves Boston to spend a few months in Europe before its next American tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Iolanthe' -- at the Shubert | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

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