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Word: perlis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Thus, the financing of the 27 million dollar project is being handled by a group of private investors who will operate the toll system on the bridge until the capital plus interest is paid off. By 1978, the toll profits should exceed the original cost and the bridge, as per previous agreement, will became public property...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

...encouraging that the Harvard linemen will enjoy a ten-pound per man weight advantage over their opponents. But although the Lions are not so heavy as they were last year when Harvard beat them in Valpey's debut, Elmer Madar, who scouted the Amherst game, reported that they hit harder than they did a year...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Injury-Ridden Crimson Given Edge Over Columbia in Today's Skirmish | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

This year, with 880 undergraduates expressing interest in PBH at registration, Brooks House has the potential manpower to operate at 25 per cent above last year--a year which in itself, in PBH history, was a big year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Maps Big Social Service Year | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...have full care of their rooms and will be responsible for increased amounts of pantry work, bell duty, and table-waiting. Under last year's program, girls handled three hours' worth of bells and kitchen duty weekly. This year the maximum duty for each girl will be five hours per week and will run somewhat less in the larger halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Revises Eating Shifts, Work System | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

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