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Word: local (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as likely to end up with a degree. Taking the same courses, the same exams as the men from the Houses, Radcliffe students evidently can be graduated too. This is indeed a change from the days when those in the Annex were considered part of the local scenery, appearing in time for football games, and disappearing after the Yard Concerts--a group that spent its days taking notes and its nights playing bridge, using odd moments to snare men and write papers. Where this all led to nobody knew, or seemed to care--gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batter Up... | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...There is far more involved here than being a well informed voter," President Conant continued, "more even than taking part in local politics or in the work of philanthropic organizations,--excellent and important as such activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baccalaureate Launches Graduation | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Poplar Street, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Vensas, Victor Vance of 1322 East 115 Street, Cleveland; East High, Cleveland. Vickery, Thomas Glenn of 528 West Stevenson Street, Gibsonburg; Gibsonburg High. Weiss, Sanford Ronald of 12712 Iowa Avenue, Cleveland; Glenville High, Cleveland. Williamson, Billy James of Route 2, Hillsboro; Jackson Local School, Belfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Lists Released | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...girl who gets rescued from the fire, and who indirectly caused it, is Susan Hayward. Pretty enough to spark all sorts of explosions, Susan gets this one under way by vowing vengeance on a local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Family. In Tucson, Ariz., when August Holish complained that local police were too inefficient in tracking down hit & run drivers, Police Captain Frank Keefe went to work and nabbed the motorist who had left the scene of an accident the month before: Mrs. August Holish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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