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Word: positioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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And Provost Furniss actually knows his informant's name and position.

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

His position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Rendezvous in Paris | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

The 15-room Hawkings home (called "The Limit," because it is the last house on Shanghai's southwestern boundary) at once became a front-line position. Nationalist soldiers pulled down fences all around, dug trenches through neighboring gardens, put neighboring houses to the torch. When one group of soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MRS. HAWKINGS SEES IT THROUGH | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

"I managed to stop them from building a gun post in the middle of the bowling green, by showing them a much better strategic position," said Mrs. Hawkings, "and I saved my bed of anchusas and the bushes of weigela and nemophila from being dug up for a trench, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MRS. HAWKINGS SEES IT THROUGH | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Pastor of the Second (Unitarian) Church in Boston at 26, making five pastoral visits a day and caring for his young bride (who died after a year and a half of marriage), Emerson revolted against what he called the "official goodness" of his position. The arguments that led to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Are Ours | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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