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Word: school (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the Medical School has been one of Harvard's biggest financial worries. Not since 1943--an abnormal wartime year--has the University's school for doctors escaped an operating deficit, and in some cases, both before and after 1943, year-end losses have reached into six figures. What make the whole thing incongruous is the fact that almost every week the papers seem to bear news of some new gift or grant to finance something the School wants...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaky Bridge | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...plaque honoring the deceased will be placed on the door of the conference room of the Board of Student Advisers at the law School. Sheldon served on the board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 Presented To Law School in Honor of Ex-Grad | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...anonymous gift of approximately $5,00 in memory of William DuBose Sheldon, LL.B. '88, who died in 1943 as a result of Naval service in the Pacific has been received by the Las School, Dean Griswold announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 Presented To Law School in Honor of Ex-Grad | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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