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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student chose Havana for his term-time vacation resort, and the series of events which followed this choice put a scowl on the University's physiognomy. The student wrote a series of post-dated letters, addressed to his father, and left them with a friend who was to mail them at certain designated intervals. The friend, however, decided to mail the entire lot at once. Several days later the vacationing student's irate father was in Cambridge. Neither he nor the administration had any idea of where...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: 'The University Takes a Dim View . . .' | 10/10/1952 | See Source »

...first seeds reached Boston on January 5, 1948 by air mail; some were planted at the Arboretum and others distributed elsewhere. Several weeks later, the bulk shipment containing hundreds of thousands of seeds arrived. The Arboretum distributed some 600 seed packets to botanists all over the globe and sent large bulk parcels to American and foreign institutions--including Chaney at the University of California--for redistribution...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Professors Squabble Over Seeds From China's Living Fossil Trees | 10/9/1952 | See Source »

Said London's Daily Herald: "Epstein at long last stands officially justified. His life battle has finally been won." Said the Daily Mail: "Epstein . . . reaches today the solid bank of final triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bank of Triumph | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Actually New World Review is not even on the Attorney General's list of subversive magazines, and anyone can subscribe to it through the mail. As a matter of fact, anyone who wants this magazine must tell the librarian why. But even if New World Review were an English translation of Pravda, there should be no argument about its place in a public library. People deserve the right, if they wish it, to see both sides of any argument, even if one is all black. They also have the right to know what their enemies are saying about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poison on the Bookshelves | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...rounds. He recalls : "It was like a big wheel. You'd get fired from one station and go to the next, get fired, and then move on around. I was fired from more stations than there are in Chicago right now." Between jobs he jerked sodas, carried mail, sold pianos, told jokes in a nightclub owned by Al Capone. On the air, Hawk was the first to broadcast a polo game, a wrestling match and a miniature golf tournament. He claims to have been the first real disk jockey in 1932, when he began cracking jokes between records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Mother Knows Best | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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