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Word: logs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hills and plains, the war has come to the college's lovely wooded heights. U.S. President James Abram Garfield (Williams '56) said of the college under its fourth president: "The ideal college is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." But last week more than 1,226 students were crowded into neocolonial quarters built for a peacetime total of 820. For the duration, Williams will teach aviation cadets and apprentice seamen almost exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chapel Hill and Williamstown | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Miss Melissa Mason had charm, wit, grace and a log that could go through a 380-degree circle on a maneuvering board as easily as a pair of dividers...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/28/1943 | See Source »

Deep in the Heart. When Sam Rayburn made the decision that molded his life he was a barefoot boy chopping cotton on his father's 40-acre farm, near Bonham, Tex. As befits a U.S. politician, Sam was born in a log cabin, the eighth of eleven children. His father had fought in the Civil War, settled in Tennessee, moved to Texas when Sam was five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mister Speaker | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Navy transport Alchiba is back at sea again, eight months after officially being reported lost. Her log book is an epic of seamanship, brilliant salvage work and heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Voyage of the Alchiba | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...that the majority have received inklings into their P.G. duties, the rest of the Bakermen can't wait until they know whether they will be hoisting signals or entering them in the log as comm. Officers . . . The management promises a good show in any duty you draw and there are plenty of good ring-side seats left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/20/1943 | See Source »

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