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Word: leighs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses and auxiliary police are preparing for the 30 minute test air raid and blackout which is scheduled for next Thursday evening. Leverett has already announced a trial blackout to be held Wednesday, and the other Houses are laying plans for similar trials, according to Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House and chief warden of the House precinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Lay Plans For Blackout on Thursday | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

...personnel will go to the warden of their precinct to get their certificates. Chief Warden for Precinct A is Professor Alden B. Dawson; for Precinct, B. Dean Delmar Leighton; and for Precinct C, Professor Leigh Hoadley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARDENS TO GET INSIGNIA | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

Authors of the form letter, Dr. Ronald M. Ferry, associate professor of Biochemistry, Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, and K. D. Metcalf, Librarian of the College, urged their addressees to contribute to the Ball, whose receipts are devoted to combating Infantile paralysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Urged To Attend President's Birthday Ball | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

Training Center students do the same things a doughboy does, often under tougher conditions. Under big, hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Brushing Up | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Died. John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, 67, the House of Commons' "most ejected member" (1918-40); of heart disease; in Leigh-On-Sea, England. Burly Laborite from London's tenement-jammed West Ham, he heckled contemporaries as "damned liars," "assassins." referred to Commons as "the national gas works." Ejection was Commons' method of silencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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