Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like rosy-fingered dawn, laundryman Benny Jacobson came upon the Advocate's new prize-winning door this morning, designed by Peter Heliczer...
...week's end, Eden's government was propounding a new line: Britain had intervened to foil a Russian plot to take over the Middle East. Said President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft: "We intervened to stop the war, and we have perhaps stopped it in the nick of time before the Egyptian air force, organized by Russia, ran amok in the Middle East." Eden's Foreign Office had apparently not had the political word. The Foreign Office told inquiring reporters that stories of massive Russian moves came from Russian propaganda, which was systematically exaggerating what...
Moskowitz's motion followed a speech by Peter W. Gross '58, leader of a small group of students seeking allocation of the money through the United Nation's International Refugee Committee. "Who ever heard of WUS?" he asked...
...classrooms, laboratories and offices of the school are crowded and inadequate. It has been necessary to put several activities of the Faculty and Staff in buildings not owned by the School: for example, space is rented from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for cancer control and statistical offices; the department of Industrial Hygiene conducts its air cleaning research for the Atomic Energy Commission in rented quarters several blocks from the school; the Department of Tropical Public Health occupies space in the Medical School; and the Department of Sanitary Engineering is located in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...shortage of hands, the A.P. sent George Boultwood from its Bonn bureau to Budapest to join its resident man, Endre Marton. Boultwood took along his 17-year-old son George Peter, who was soon filing his own byline stories from the Hungarian capital. The U.P.'s Anthony J. Cavendish scored a feat by covering the Polish rebellion in Warsaw, then flying into Hungary with a Polish plane carrying plasma. He landed 33 miles south of Budapest, hitchhiked to the suburbs, had to walk the last five miles. He sent out a fast-moving 2,000-word eyewitnesser...