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Word: orders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to arrive in time for the Crimson-Big Red tilt at 2 p.m. tomorrow, local students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Roads Lead to Ithaca As Big Exodus Commences | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

Second-hand texts have been the order of the day during the first week of courses, a survey of local book stores indicated yesterday. The shift from now to used books was attributed unanimously by booksellers on the Square to the drop in the number of veterans' book authorizations issued at registration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just 1000 Vets Request Book Authorization | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

Several men said they had not received "fair notice" of their assignment to the barracks. This, they claimed, prevented them from repacking in order to have sufficient clothes and blankets in the closets basketball auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gymdwellers Complain At Assembly in Union | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Bitch Again | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Picasso & Co. had already invented cubism (painting guitars and fruits as if they had been smashed and reassembled in jagged geometrical patterns) and they found that cutting and pasting scraps of newspaper, wallpaper, wine labels and calling cards was a short-order way of cooking up cubist effects. Also it was an easy way to shock the fuddy-duddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scissors & Paste | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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