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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...librarian, although we can't imagine why, concocted a blurb on bananas--and the return mail brought a congratulatory note (with prize). We should like to recommend to this same quintet that they now look to the University's honor in the "Blotto" contest, sponsored by a local newspaper. Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Assembly passed a resolution censuring the State House guard for permitting the "vulgar and burlesque" demonstrations of the week, requesting Governor Hoffman to prevent their recurrence. Assembly and Senate both passed resolutions requesting the Federal Government to return for relief funds $20,000,000 collected from New Jersey taxpayers. Then, unable to think of anything else to do, both Houses adjourned for two days, their leaders planning to confer in the more congenial atmosphere of a clubhouse. Encountering no opposition from the State House guard, Leader Cooke and "Speaker" Spain and their followers settled down once more on the Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Jobless Invasion | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...remembered by those failing to secure admission to a House now that a number of places will become available before September by changes in plans on the part of some of the men for whom rooms for 1936-37 are now reserved. Some of these men will not return to College for personal reasons, and those Freshmen who fail in June to receive promotion to the Sophomore class will not be eligible for the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS ON HOUSE ADMISSIONS WILL BE MAILED TODAY | 5/2/1936 | See Source »

Fifty-eight men were not assigned pending the results of their June examinations since they are now on pro. If they return in good standing next fall, they will be recommended to the field of their first choice and will probably be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 90 PERCENT OF '38 GET FIRST CHOICE IN CONCENTRATION | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

Nothing less than a British cruiser would do to carry from China to England last winter 21,000 items of Imperial Manchu art lent by the Chinese Government to the British Government for a great exhibition in London's Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). To return this priceless treasure, after it had been viewed by 422,048 persons, His Majesty's Government thriftily decided to use an ordinary steamship, the Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura, with a relay of naval escorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Bad Spot | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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