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Word: reference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many weeks now a group of seniors has been hard at work on an activity, the outcome of which we all await with interest. We are referring to the year book. "The Rough Roll." At the present time it may not seem too important, because we are now in daily contact with all the people and scenes which it will recall to mind in the years to come. In that future period, though we may think otherwise at the moment, we will be interested in the men who are now undergoing the same ordeal that we are. In those...

Author: By J.d. Wilson, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

Their argument: unless all unions and all employers were treated in like manner, wage stabilization was impossible. Out of more than 1,000 decisions, WLB has had to refer only seven to Franklin Roosevelt for executive action. But among these seven were its key decisions. As long as labor, in the person of John L. Lewis, or management, notably Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum, was able to defy it, the board could command no respect, achieve no final success in holding down wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: What Big Teeth You Have | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...refer to a recent article by Sgt. George Avagian (obviously a paid agent of the Yale News office) skulking behind the innocent heading of "Specialists' Corner." Is our dirty wash to be smirked at and pointed to by a Yale (or as he calls it, "a four-letter man.) "O Tempera, O mores...Immo vere etiam in senatum venit, fit publici consili particops..."And has he the temerity to beard us in our very den? A Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Refer to Webster. F. W. Hesse

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 8/3/1943 | See Source »

They Fly Through the Air. For days thereafter the 100-odd American and British correspondents in North Africa went about with the guilty demeanor of men bursting with a secret. When they had TIME, July 26, 1943 to refer to it, they called it "the magoo," "that thing," or just "it." This was what they had trained for. Some veterans had been almost four years around the front lines. Others had studied invasions at service schools in Britain. One and all, they kept the secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Magoo | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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