Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald H. Meuzel, professor of Astrophysics, won the $500 A. Cresay Morrison Prize for a paper entitled "Energy Sources in Giant Stars," the New York Academy of Sciences announced December...
...dreary, five-story school on the edge of Harlem, is a relic of the school-building programs of 1888. The building has no gymnasium, and its tiny playground is hardly large enough for one class at a time. It has just seven toilets for 600 boys, provides neither toilet paper nor towels. Children attending the school periodically suffer from scabies, a skin disease usually caused by filth...
With a Viking's daring, blue-eyed Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Swedish-Electrolux Co. in 1919 and girdled the world with its subsidiaries. Before long, he also controlled the Swedish paper-pulp trust. He bought out Krupp's interest in Sweden's Bofors antiaircraft gun, and started a military airplane plant to make the things the guns shoot...
...Senator's speech of acceptance is such a model of reluctance that one opposition paper headlines it: ASHTON BACKS INTO PRESIDENTIAL RACE. When his party boss (Ray Collins) tells him where to get off, he demurely mentions a diary in which, during 35 years of party hacking, he has noted down "Everything"-even What Happened in Boston; yes, even What Happened in Denver. After that The Boys do not hesitate to get behind him heart & soul...
...next two days, Harvard dropped considerably. Captain Graham Taylor ran ninth in the gruelling seven mile cross country race. In the jumping, Griffin flow the distance for eight place. The last event of the meet was a paper event, scored by combining the jumping and cross country records of each college...