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Word: p (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been no word indicating what names are being considered, but popular consensus around Yale points to Ohio's Taft brothers, Robert A. Y '10 and Charles P. Y. '18, as strong contenders, with Charles held the favorite...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Hunts Successor to Retiring President; Tafts Being Considered | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Later last night, Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the Young Progressives, and John A. Balley '51, treasurer, said they thought Bonney's statements were irrelevant to the question and that any rebuttal by the Progressives would be similarly irrelevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Capt. Bonney Gives Answer To YP Charge | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...warning came too late. The P-38 hurtled into the passenger-jammed DC-4 with the split-second destructiveness of a huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Bolivia 927! Turn Left | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...decisions from now on. As one of the first changes in the new regime, veteran Managing Editor Marvin McCarthy, who did not agree with Field on how the news should be played, resigned. Into his shoes stepped a man with whom Marsh Field sees eye to eye-Milburn P. Akers, 49, Sun-Times political columnist and executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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