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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaky finances have forced the band to skip its first football trip since 1945, manager, Joseph J. Borgatti '45 reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band May Stay at Home as Funds Crisis Threatens Army and Cornell Excursions | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...five-year-old Lasker Awards are among the world's top medical honors. As prizes go, their value is small: the biggest single prize, given with a gold reproduction of Winged Victory,'is $2,500. Lasker Awards impress scientists because they are "working prizes." They usually skip the obvious, heavily laureled choices and reward men or groups who have done jobs that the public doesn't know much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fanning the Fire | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Hands. One of the eeriest features of television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sponsors' World | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Directors George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. also thought they could skip the "routine meeting." Though Morgan interests had helped put Avery in as Ward's chairman 17 years ago, Whitney and Davison are now reportedly pro-Norton. When the meeting was finally held, it turned out to be anything but routine-and still another Norton man, Director Lawrence Appley, was among those missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knockout | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...rest of the program includes an informal dance from 9 to 1 o'clock tonight in Memorial Hall to the music of Fred Guerra and 13 stalwarts, a formal tomorrow in the Union with the musical assistance of Larry Green and Skip Towne and their orchestras, and a Band Concert Sunday afternoon. Yard room permission has been extended both nights until the dances begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Swarm Over Yard As '51 Jubilee Opens Today | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

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