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Word: quartets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports fans on the south bank of the Charles River at 2 o'clock tomorrow will have the opportunity to see one of America's fastest humans compete with collegiate runners as Gil Dodds brings an informal Gordon Seminary quartet into the triangular Harvard - Tufts - Coast Guard cross country meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodds to Run Cross Country In Meet Here Tomorrow | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Everyone has really been very helpful," volunteered Ensign Schwerin. "Yes, especially across the dinner table," one of the more loquacious of the quartet retorted. "Is that all you can say for Radar-men?" I asked "What men?" came back the quick reply from a source which preferred--nay, insisted--upon remaining anonymous...

Author: By Yooman Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 10/19/1943 | See Source »

...School, which does not depend on draft-age students, was booming despite the war, hoped to exceed its 1936 record of 4,034 registrants. The school had come a long way from its small, but distinguished, beginnings. Among the founders in 1919 was no less a quartet than James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen, Charles Austin Beard and John Dewey. To get the academic dust out of their lungs they set up their own school in a musty Victorian house in New York's Chelsea district. In 1922 Johnson took over the institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Adults | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

After opening the program with the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," a quartet of staff and students sang three numbers of old fashioned harmony, and Dr. Cornet led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert pianist, played two selections of a more serious nature. Lt. Tirico and Mrs. Anita Clarke Richmond each sang several selections and a duet, Lt. Tirico included a love song called "Les Trois Fils D'Or" by Colonel Fox, accompanied...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

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