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Word: museums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid I cannot refute the statement about our trains, however, having jogged along to Chicago on our Pere Marquette museum pieces at various times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...this time, the boy was anxious to be off on an inspection tour of the Yard. He figured the "Athropopological Museum" as the best entertainment bet. As he disappeared in that direction, he was heard to say, "I still don't see what is so hot about this place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth Grader Flies from Texas to Speak to Committee on Admission | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

...studying stages of this semester, they were also treated to a film showing scenes of the last two Commencements and other Yard activities. This film was, logically enough, produced by the Harvard Film Service which, one would judge by its modest quarters in the basement of the Germanic Museum, probably photographed pastoral views of the University in all its splendor, and very little else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Service Scored Bullseye With Navy's Target Practice Equipment | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...building is rising near the Peabody Museum to house the University's gigantic automatic calculator. This machine, which did invaluable secret war work, is at present located in the basement of the Physics Research Laboratory, and is in constant use 24 hours a day, 20 by the Navy, and four by the University for its own research projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giant Calculator to be Installed in New Math Computation Structure | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

Wright's latest, a country house for wealthy stockbroker Gerald Loeb, has yet to be built, but a 6 ft. by 12 ft. model went on view last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Designed for a barren hilltop, the Loeb house was to be as low, flat and full of wrinkles as an unmade Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wright Makes It Right | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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