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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auburn Street boys became suspicious when he saw that the published odds were 2 to 1 on Harvard. He called up the bank and stopped payment on all the checks. Then he and his cronies kidnapped the assistant with lures of more bets, holding him until he confessed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS KIDNAP BOOKIE'S HENCHMAN, GET BACK $250 | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Last Tuesday's meeting of the Faculty saw the first constructive action to emerge from the biweekly storm-sessions which are rapidly becoming a Harvard institution. More than that, it saw a triumph of a principle proclaimed since the beginning of the controversy by critics of the Administration's tenure policies. The Faculty's resolution--cautious and ambiguous though its terminology may have been--constituted an official sanction of the system of frozen associate professorships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Five hundred students lost an aggregate of 80 studying hours, and the taxpayers of Cambridge saw $600 go out the window as a prankster, assumed to be from the Lampoon, pulled two false alarm bells just outside the Monstrosity of Mount Auburn Street at 8 o'clock and again at 10 o'clock last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plastered 'Pooners Pull Putrid Pranks | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

When Congress gave Franklin Roosevelt the kind of Neutrality Act he wanted fortnight ago, profiseers dusted off their crystal globes, looked hard and long, saw a billion dollars worth of lush war orders for U. S. industry. To the U. S. came seven foreign missions, ready to take advantage of cash-&-carry. Up to this week their checkbooks still bristled with unused checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Critics previewed the picture in London an hour after an air-raid warning had put them in the right frame of mind. What they saw was a frank propaganda picture starring Ralph Richardson* as a Flight Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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