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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the ball from the mice and monkeys is a room full of moth pupas, with their brains cut out. The pupa is the animal inside a cocoon; and Assistant Professor Carroll M. Williams has found that it will live indefinitely but not grow when its brain is removed. He...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Biologists Regulate Rats in Research Lab | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

Summer school students of both sexes will get a chance to cool off together in the Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool every weekday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Summer School officials announced yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duo Dips, Dances, Teas Fill Summer Social Schedules | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

However, if Harvard men really wish to maintain their prestige, they might investigate the nubile lady graduates of Brigham Young U. of Utah, currently setting the pace with 2.45 offspring per graduate reporting. Rating them off their Class of 1924 performance, a Harvard-Brigham Young alliance could conceivably produce 2.10...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go West, Young Man: Coast Promises More for Your Money in Wife Mart | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

Starting at 5 p.m., the 13-event meet is scheduled to be run off in an hour and a half. This is the first post-war renewal of the traditional series, which began in 1899. Each team has won seven times, with Oxford-Cambridge taking the last three meets, in...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Oxford's Bannister May Be Top Man in Monday's Meet | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

Very few objections can be raised to the project. Because it would be a toll highway, the 60 to 75 million dollar cost would be assumed by the users. And inasmuch as most of the cross-state travelers will come from other states, the pike would cost Bay Staters almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Missing Link | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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