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Word: nassau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: For an Old Rugby Player | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Princeton students, who take tests on a proctor-less honor system, felt obliged to report the trio. Brought before Nassau officialdom, the miscreants turned out to be editors of the Yale Daily News on an espionage mission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Men Are Aghast; That Was No Time to Joke | 10/11/1950 | See Source »

...York City, like almost every other U.S. town these days, proved to be not so big as it thought it was. The Census Bureau counted 7,841,610 New Yorkers. Since 1940 the city had gained only 5.1%, while one nearby commuters' county on Long Island-Nassau, which includes the assembly-line homes of Levittown-had grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENSUS: Second Biggest | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

What becomes of Princeton men after they leave Old Nassau? According to a traditional Princeton song, they are "safe now in the wide, wide world." Last week, as the graduate of 1934 and 1940 scanned his newly published class reports, it appeared that the song had it about right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Safe in the Wide World | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Hence, Skipper Braisted hopes that the 1948 race conditions will again prevail; at that time all but 65 miles of the run was a reach. The "Troubador" recently raced in the Miami-Nassau race, doing well, while her sister ship, the "Astrea" won the class B title in the March St. Petersburg-Havana race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yacht Club Has Boat in Newport-Bermuda Race | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

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