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Word: provisioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The slightly more expensive brands of Scotch and Rourbon are the most frequent purchases of college students, except during the football season, when rum punches for celebration in victory or solace in defeat are first in popularity. As another owner of a "provision" store revealed, "Harvard drinkers collectively are gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY DISCLOSES STUDENTS HAVE GOOD DRINKING TASTES | 12/16/1941 | See Source »

But the Army's end is the big one: $5,127,647,652. Beyond its provision for upping the strength of the Army to 2,000,000 men, the bill also shows the results of the Army's orderly ferment about the changing tactics of modern warfare: it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: All Out Price | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

- TIME meant no dispraise to able President Keller or to the auto indus try. Its point was that Mr. Odlum had allowed himself to be balked on writing a subcontracting provision into the tank contract. In so doing TIME'S story failed to give the auto industry the undisputed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Edward J. LeCam, of the Boston Legal Aid Bureau, is the only member of the bar in the office. The students are permitted to appear in court by a provision in the Massachusetts General Laws allowing "any person of good moral character" to "manage a suit if he is especially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Aid Bureau Counsels Needy, Neurotics, Convicts | 12/4/1941 | See Source »

War aims, like a cat held up by the tail, have a way of clawing back at those who propose them. One of the eight points propounded by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at their conference in the Atlantic provides for the unilateral disarmament of the aggressor nations. That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Germania Non Delenda Est | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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