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Word: parsees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The requirements for admission were likewise severe when placed alongside the present College Boards. The University catalogue of 1840 reads, "To be received into the Freshman Class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, . . . be able to construe and parse from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Rules Were Rougher, Tougher Than Those Today | 3/5/1946 | See Source »

Plowshares and Bulls. The luck of "Parse" Parisius and colleagues may not hold, but they are sure now that they know how to speed their job under any circumstances. They figure that 500-600 tons of iron and steel shipped to Greece can be hammered into enough plows and hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Feed Europe | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

"Parse" Parisius had a good and tested idea: to draw a million small farmers into the nation's critical food production battle by providing them supervision and credit for needed equipment, feed and fertilizer. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. at War: Trouble in Food | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

A man of guts, Parse Parisius finally exploded: "We in Agriculture have a job to do that calls for courage and wisdom and action. You have placed upon me great responsibility for that job. But neither I nor anyone else can do that job unless his authority to operate is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. at War: Trouble in Food | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

But well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: To End Blundering? | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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