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Word: oak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Appealing Hardware | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...hill a couple of miles beyond the suburbs of Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 18,340) is a 63-acre farm with a hundred-year-old stone house, Oak Hill. Its inhabitants are 34-year-old Charles Allen Smart and his wife. They call themselves plain farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Specialty Farmer | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Dorchester and Lowell House is the former secretary-treasurer of the organization and participated in last year's H-Y-P debates. Neal of Oak Park, Illinois and Dunster House, was president of the Freshman Debating Society last year and a member of the Union Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EBB ELECTED NEW DEBATING COUNCIL HEAD AT MEETING | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...Into the oak-paneled board room marched the regents once again, listened to a letter from Governor Benson requesting that they right an old injustice. "We cannot suffer a precedent to stand, under which, during periods of hysteria, honorable teachers are humiliated and dismissed in disgrace because their views happen not to coincide with the views of those in power." With only one dissenting vote-that of Fred B. Snyder, president of the board in 1917 and now-the board rescinded the 1917 dismissal, voted Professor Schaper $5,000 as salary for the year 1917-18. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Monument to Freedom | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Class of 1940: Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Philadelphia; Robert S. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut; Melvin B. Black, Roxbury; Robert H. Clapp, Watertown; William N. Dale, Clinton, New York; Otto W. Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 AWARDED DETUR PRIZE BOOKS FOR TOP SCHOLARSHIP | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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