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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formerly, Freshmen could line the hallway of Phillips Brooks House to watch with critical eyes the entrance of Wellesley newcomers, who had paid a 50 cent bus fare for the occasion. But this year Harvard men are going to prove that they are true gentlemen, as well as scholars, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '46 JOURNEYS TO WELLESLEY | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

Italian sources reported British ships limping into Gibraltar. A Vichyfrance seaplane liner, bound for Algiers, was attacked in the air by planes, possibly British, to whom anything in the air on that confused occasion must have looked like an enemy. Spitfires based on Malta rushed out to the Royal Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Not Without Loss | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

If you don't have time enough to hear Davison's band at the Ken, you can judge for yourself next Wednesday night at Winthrop House, or over the Crimson Network. A jam session will be held, featuring instrumentalists around the College. Bill Davison has graciously consented to bring part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

Big (5 ft. 11 in.), heavy (200 lb.), blue-eyed, brown-haired Vetterli was born in Salt Lake City in 1903, joined the FBI soon after getting a law degree from Washington, D.C.'s George Washington University in 1925. He was one of the FBI men in the Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utah's Vetterli | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

II Duce hung around for a while, finally returned to Rome. There, last week, the usual greetings arrived from Adolf Hitler: "On the occasion of your birthday . . . Duce." It did seem that Herr Hitler might quit reminding him of it. In Rome the subject was not mentioned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Birthday | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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