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Word: placed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Lares. In Washington, arrested for toting an ice pick in the bosom of her blouse, Mrs. John L. Williams blandly explained: "I was moving and I just needed some place to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...seven finishers in last week's triangular cross-country meet with Yale and Princeton are in New York for the Heptagonal Races this weekend. Coach Jaakko Mikkola and his traveling squad are hopeful of returning from the trip with more to show than another last place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Harriers Face Tough Opponents In 'Heps' Today | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...disequilibrium is the concern of a new Faculty committee which is expected to study how to place and also how to cut down the surplus Ph.D.'s. One University official has described the attempt to discourage advanced study in the social sciences as a policy of "negative guidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Surplus in Scholars | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

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