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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The New England Council Steel Committee is directing the early planning for the mill. Formed three years ago, this group has the job of selecting the site and arranging for the financing of the new enterprise. Finding a location is the Committee's biggest problem-not because it can't...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Then I went to sleep. I awoke when a newsboy went through the ward calling out in a shrill voice, and later when supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Mrs. Conant, still holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

A committee which sets out "to consider whether a Harvard education produces a whole man" is certainly biting off plenty whether more than it can chew we cannot yet tell.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Man | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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