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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made on private dwellings which are going to be restricted on the basis of race, creed or color. The policy may affect one-third of all new housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Block Buster | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...most respected cat in all Britain was a small, black, white-bibbed torn named Simon. As ship's cat on board the sloop H.M.S. Amethyst on her heroic voyage down China's Yangtze River last spring (TIME, May 2), Simon got his white whiskers singed by a Communist shell, his face and legs scratched by shrapnel. But throughout the Amethyst's cruise, Simon carried on in his billet, caught at least one mouse every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Honored Memory | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...middle and heavyweight bouts, the two teams appear to be fairly well-matched. Captain Bob Claflin is making his debut as a heavy, having wrestled at 175 last year, and should be able to take care of Bading. The outcome of the match may well depend on how the lower weight battles come...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Quinted Meets Navy; Wrestlers Oppose MIT | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Freedoms of Harvard University students and the groups they form are not alienable. Just as the Harvard Dean's Office has not the right to limit the groups, so national organizations have not the right. Therefore Harvard organizations may not surrender to outside groups their right to freedom of action and must remain antonomous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty is to warn the justifiably apprehensive respondent of the use to be made of the information procured. This duty is notably clear where the poll is termed "anonymous," and the individual polled is thereby lulled into what may be a false sense of security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science and the Citizen | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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