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Word: prex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plane Prex. La Motte T. Cohu, who resigned as T.W.A. president last month, was named to succeed ailing Harry Woodhead as president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Cohu was chairman and general manager of Northrop Aircraft, Inc. for eight years before his term with money-losing T.W.A. Bogged down by production tangles, Convair lost $5,130,338 in the five months ending April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...starting lineups: CRIMSON Visitors Lewis 11:59 Dear Simon C 3565 Dear Karson avc Dear Sack pic Dear Friedman abc Dear Hooper 400 Dear Glinn jl Dear Green 6A Dear Bell naps Dear Leavitt prex Dear Stein dunce...

Author: By C. N. Gridlak, | Title: Crimson Gridders Face Subsidized Princetonians, Predict 23-2 Victory | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Prex for LS.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Prex for L.S.U. | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Russell Bowie, ex-prex of the Lampoon and son of a CRIMSON president, disgraced his father by ending the evening with a distinctly mediocre score. Bowie made a brilliant start but became rattled after he had identified "Diamond Jim," "Big Jim," "Gentleman Jim," and "Lord Jim" as a certain well-known local character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Brain Trust Dusts Off Lampoon in 23 to 2 Witskrieg | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

Reed's students first met their new president when he picked himself up from the mud at the losing end of the freshman-sophomore tug of war (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Promptly christened "Prex Dex," long-faced Dr. Keezer lived up to his unorthodox introduction. When a visiting Japanese professor left his boots outside his door in Keezer's house, "Prex Dex" blacked them himself. An ardent fisherman, he gathered Reed students in his basement for classes in fly-tying. He also brought intellectuals of all political shades to talk to the students, advertised the college so skillfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Portland to Manhattan? | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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