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Word: porters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest group comes under Class Six. If I took the time to make a comparison between the new retirement plan and Social Security. Therefore, I fail to see anything in the law to prohibit Harvard University from giving its employees something as good as Social Security. George A. Porter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Retirement Plan | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Infraction. In San Francisco, a notice on a Southern Pacific Railroad bulletin board announced the dismissal of "one redcap porter ... for shooting and killing wife; a violation of that part of Rule 801 reading, 'Employees who are . . . vicious . . . will not be retained in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...made a gift of a building to the New Haven educational institution which was to bear his name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche, and in the plaque that commemorates his birthplace in the shadow of the shadow of the Scollay Square subway block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Yale and How He Grew | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink of any brand not found in stock. Although this service has since been stopped, the beer drinker has not been neglected, and the O.G. has all kinds; bock, stout, and a varity in Cambridge, porter in bottles. Porter, by the way, is a weak stout, and is as satisfying to the beer drinker as a gut course is to the gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...weeks mail sacks crammed with ballots had been lugged into the red brick headquarters of the British Medical Association in Bloomsbury's Tavistock Square. A blue-uniformed B.M.A. porter guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Reluctant Britons | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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