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Word: oak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Ham stalked into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's courtroom last Tuesday morning, he suspected something of what was in store for him. Drawn Venetian blinds excluded the sun and gave the oak-paneled chamber the fashionable decorum of a high-class café. It took the judge about 40 minutes to overrule all defense objections and accept the Government's findings of fact. Would Mr. Lewis be permitted to speak? He would, said the judge, and Lewis rose, clutching three typewritten sheets of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Horatius & the Great Ham | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Uneasy Bedfellows | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Oak Ridge Founded...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: College Observatory Slates Four-Day Centennial Celebration AS U.S. Scientists Gather to Honor Astronomic Leadership | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

...Oak Ridge Observatory, 25 miles North-east of Cambridge in Harvard Township, was established as a more likely site for the systematic photography of the Northern skies. Today, armed with a Schmidt Camera--advantages; better image over larger field, astronomically speaking short (one half hour) exposures, revealing stars down to nineteenth magnitude--the staff at Oak Ridge is aiming at a complete analysis of the Milky...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: College Observatory Slates Four-Day Centennial Celebration AS U.S. Scientists Gather to Honor Astronomic Leadership | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

...Adams House and Brooklyn, as News Editor; Robert W. Morgan, Jr. '46, of Eliot House and E. Islip, L. I., as Sorts Editor; Waldo Profit, Jr. '46, of the Hotel Brunswiek and Chiekasha. Okla., as Assistant Editor Chairman; and Richard L. Wattling '49, of Winthrop House and Oak Park. Ill as Circulation Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. Scot Leavitt Named Crimson President J. Anthony Lewis Chosen Managing Editor | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

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