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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so, "it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Represents The Student Body | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...mailed to subscribers, some 3,300 copies have crossed the Atlantic each week for newsstand distribution in the British Isles and on the Continent. This has been chiefly for the convenience of U. S. citizens living and traveling abroad, although an increasing number of Europeans read TIME. During the past year TIME has got into difficulties in the four most important European countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: TIME Ban | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...precise, he stepped forward and handed rumpled Wendell Willkie a check for $44,728,300, TVA's share of the purchase of T.E.P. Willkie took the check, looked at its thumping figure, looked at Dave Lilienthal, at whom he had glowered in many a meeting over the past six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...advertisers who wanted to cry their wares abroad. No station yet has a sponsor, probably because distance broadcasting has not yet had an opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: X (for Experimental) | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since he had a magpie's passion for collecting scraps from his past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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