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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also sweeping Radcliffe, those three girls apparently have convinced PAIGE MOONEY '50, as they prepare to shear off her lengthy locks. "It" is the cropped, wind-blown hair style as modeled by ANN CLARK '49, ALICN DEWEY '50, and ELISABETH HORTON '50 (surrounding bar left in right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Sweeping the Nation . . . | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

Whether all of Harlow's subtle maneuvers will be able to overcame the shear brutal power and overwhelming weight of experience which Oiell will be able to produce will be the issue this afternoon...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harvard Eleven Struggles to Topple Steep Odds in 63rd Yale Encounter | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...terms of the gamble had long been set by law and custom: no seals, no pay. The risk is great. The rafting ice might shear off a rudder or propeller, or jam the ship so long it would miss the main patch of seals. But the adventure still thrills the hardy Newfoundland fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Swilin' Time | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear, 64, Princeton University's famed archeologist, whose best-known excavation was the 1931-39 Rockefeller-financed ($1,200,000) unearthing of the market place of ancient Athens; of a heart attack; at Lake Sunapee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...advocate any Dumbarton Oaks plan, and then shear ourselves of the power to carry it out, would be even worse than our refusal to join the attempt at world organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Combined Operation | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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