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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elevation of Cliff Helman, Junior passing artist, to the second string tailback spot, and the announcement that he had been awarded a Red Jersey formed the main grid news of a rainy Tuesday. Helman's promotion to the Varsity squad brings the Red Jersey total...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: HELMAN PROMOTED TO SECOND TAILBACK JOB | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...main thesis of the petition is that the assistant professors are "a group including some of the best teachers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," and that "This administrative policy undermines the morale of the younger members of the Faculty and otherwise lowers the quality of teaching throughout the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW TENURE APPEAL GAINS IN MOMENTUM | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good politician and his wife was the sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife. With these advantages, the Emperor made him a marshal and later Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Main political instrument of the Congress consists of the eleven provincial governments. In eight of them the party has a majority, in one other a strong minority. First move would be for those nine to get a vote of censure of Lord Linlithgow's statement from their respective legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Time and the Measure | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...last August Earl Jones made up his mind to start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 59-Day Wonder | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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