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Word: quarter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearances at a Belmont High concert Sunday, and at the quarter finals and finals of the New England Golden Gloves Boxing tournament Monday and Wednesday, will highlight the Band's mid-winter schedule, director Malcolm G. Holmes '28, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Schedules Busy Mid-Winter Program | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, everything that Exeter did seemed futile. When they succeeded in penetrating the defense freshman coach Harper had rigged against their figure eight offense, about 90 percent of the shots they took missed. During the entire first quarter Exeter failed to sink a single field goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickey Leads '52 Quintet to 62-33 Win Over Exeter | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

...dangerous laxity regarding "hardened criminals"). Indenturing, movies, trips--all were forms of therapy which shocked the traditionalists. Several outstanding penologists and social workers who testified this month definitely were not shocked. They agreed with Dr. Van Waters, who remarked that McDowell's June directives "turned the clock back a quarter of a century...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...relatives got Refugee Woloski as far as Cuba. But he could not get on the quota, could not get a visa as a student, could not get work. At a restaurant where refugees congregate in Havana's cobbled barrio judio (Jewish quarter), he met a smuggler's agent named Simowitz. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Oliebollen for Warren | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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