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Word: phils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday a new type of football hero earned his free ticket to Valhalla. Phil Alexander '42, double-flip expert and cheerleader-extraordinary, pulled a tendon while doing a "today's acrobatic special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enthusiastic Cheerleader Invites Ankle Disaster | 9/27/1941 | See Source »

...just got back his first English A theme, covered with comments more pungent than insidious; and pointed up with a large red "D," this admonition can have little meaning. For a man fresh out of a midwestern high school, listening to Professor Demos at the opening lecture in Phil. A tell him that the course should make him feel that he knows even less than he knew before, this warning just doesn't make sense. For an undergraduate researcher in chemistry, confused and unable to see his special problem in its proper perspective, who comes to his instructor, expecting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admonishing the Admonishers | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...Phil Caldwell Neal '40, Lionel A-21, was President of the Student Council, Vice-president of the Album Committee, and awarded Phi Beta Kappa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF FRESHMAN PROCTORS | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...paper money) for $10,000. // Errol Flynn collapsed with nervous exhaustion, was hospitalized in Hollywood. // Lightweight Champ Levy Jenkins got a collection of cuts and bruises when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took a nose dive. // C.I.O.'s Phil Murray left the Pittsburgh hospital where he had been since a heart attack July 13. // Dim-witted Al Capone, 260 lb., is growing John Bull sideburns. // Columnist Sidney Skolsky announced that Judy Garland bites her nails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood Dollar-Dolors | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...appointment, which most Army men had marked out for Wage & Hour Administrator (and West Pointer) Phil Fleming, engineer soldiers flicked no eyebrows. For General Reybold, even if not a West Pointer, rates high with his fellow officers, and at least his son, Captain Franklin B. Reybold of the Coast Artillery, is a graduate of West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Cracked Tradition | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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