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Word: provisioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen at 7:05 p.m. last night in an armed holdup at the Harvard Provision Company, 94 Mount Auburn Street.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

George H. O'Brien, owner of the Provision, reported that a five foot eight inch man, about 35 years of age, entered his store shortly before 7 p.m. and ordered a bottle of rum and some Coca-Cola. James F. Mahoney, a clerk, went to a rear room for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury and vice president of the Alliance, society for the encouragement of sex education, backed the demand. "I am not saying," he insisted, "that the obtaining of contraceptives in the ordinary way by adults should be curtailed. It is the indiscriminate, uncontrolled provision of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatantly Easy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Action on the plan began immediately with government officials drawing up necessary legislation, and the United Nations making provision to include American aid in its own plans for poorer nations. Several bills have been passed this session for increased appropriations to the U.N. for use in its economic assistance programs...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

New Numbers. The trouble is, says the FORUM, that New York makes no provision for changes in population. Most of its schools are planned by the Board of Education's Construction Bureau, which sticks by its oldtime architects and methods. As one former bureau architect put it: "When a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Wrong Kind | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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