Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian territory. Or he could let them in, label them well and let them talk their heads off. He issued the visas-and a frosty statement that the U.S. "entertains no illusions as to the manner in which the Communists will attempt to use and manipulate the present conference...
Under the present set-up, plusses and minuses have much less importance than many people attach to them. B-plus and B-minus both count as straight B's for rank list ratings and for the student's final record transcripts. The man with a B-plus who has just missed an A has, in a sense, been robbed, while a person with a B-minus has been exalted somewhat out of proportion to his talents...
...heavy thaw, meanwhile, will melt off all the present snow, Brooks said. Last year, the final 16 inches disappeared from the Blue Hills in two days of sunshine...
Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...
...Crimson this week starts a policy of complete coverage of the projects and discoveries of the University's science departments. This article attempts to fill in the background on the Physics and Engineering Departments, and get up to date on their present undertakings. It is the first in a series of three stories...