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Word: list (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Narrowing down an original list of applicants from 20 to 8, the Committee for Selection of the Delegate to the Prague Conference last night announced that personal interviews will be conducted with the men still in the running next Wednesday evening beginning at 8 o'clock in the Student Council Room at Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selection Committee For Prague Delegate Cuts Down Field to 8 | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...declining to name those specifically chosen, they did state that a prior Council vote had restricted the acceptable candidates to men enrolled in the College. Those who have been requested to appear for interviews will be notified within the next twenty-four hours, and the remainder of the original list will be informed as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selection Committee For Prague Delegate Cuts Down Field to 8 | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner gathered garlands of Mother's Day publicity: they made somebody's list of the "most glamorous mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inklings | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...decided to corner a small market on importation of now scarce parts. He explains the plethora of three-speed shifts and other hard to get gadgets by his easy distribution of Wrigley's spearmint gum to the stenographers of large British firms. "That put me way up on the list for post-war supply," he declared...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Rugged Individualist, Class of '34, Pedals Bicycle on Road to Success | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...independence), Aggies the world over held their first postwar muster. Wherever two or more met, they called the names of classmates who had died. But on the Texas A & M campus itself, where 10,000 mustered, the dead were so many (696 in World War II) that the list was abridged. The names of the four dead Medal of Honor winners were called. In strained, choked voices, four Aggies answered, "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here! | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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