Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monday at 7:30 o'clock a new CRIMSON competition begins for all boards. Freshmen are eligible for the News, Photographic, and Business branches of the paper, while Sophomores may compete for positions on the Editorial and Photographic boards...
What was this doing on an examination paper? Geography was about deserts like the Sahara; the blue Mediterranean; deep Norway fjords running into the bald rock; goats grazing in the hills; Chinamen binding sheaves of rice...
...Waterproof cigaret paper...
...working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives of British Broadcasting Corp. (but not announcers or entertainers...
...when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...