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Word: mille (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insistence of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally of Texas and toothy, grey-shocked John W. McCormack, House Majority leader, the strategists started the bill through the mill in the House first, thus bypassing the usual dragging delay of the jogging Senate pace. By starting the bill in the House, with a steam roller set to pancake all opposition, the Administration hoped this week to rip the bill through to passage in two days of closed hearings, two more days of limited debate, and shoot the bill over to the Senate by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Operations Proceeding | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Several units have passed through the mill already on their way from Harvard to the Navy, says Lieutenant Edward S. Brewer '19, author of the article. Another, with the name "John Harvard Unit" is going through the process of training at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval Aviators Will Find Many Harvard Officers | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

...special assistant administrator (at $10,000 a year) with authority to sign the President's name to Lend-Lease orders. This authority gives Ed Stettinius no real increase in power, but it may save as much as a day in getting Lend-Lease orders through the Government mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man At Work | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...characters of some nine hundred and ninety-seven new Mickey Rooneys of Harvard's happy family are being extracted, expounded and exploded by a far more important body of men than the run-of-the-mill jury of Advisors, Infant Deans, Section Men, and Professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Considered Putty In Hands of Strange Fate | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

...free subscription to "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily," the Harvard CRIMSON, will be the reward for the haggard but triumphant Freshman who emerges first from the registration mill at Memorial Hall tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Yardling to Register Takes Crimson Subscription | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

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