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Word: slates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of incomplete returns, Dunster House seems well on the way towards a new all-time record for broken windows with 12 panes shattered by snowballs within the last week. Lowell is second with six fractured transparencies. Eliot occupies the cellar position as usual with a clean slate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 WINDOW PANES SHATTER DURING RECENT SNOW STORM | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...balloting held yesterday and Tuesday Cleveland Amory was elected Secretary of the Senior Class, heading a slate of seven elected to the Class Day Committee and six to the Permanent Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amory New Secretary; Wilson, Boston Top Slates; Album Committee Selected | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...election committee said that voting for other Senior officers would proceed as usual two weeks from today, and that Junior ballots could be obtained at the regular polling places. They said that the Senior committee in charge of the nominations for marshalships would publish a slate for the 14 other positions soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snyder and Radway Excluded From Album Committee Ballot | 3/1/1939 | See Source »

...flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting liquids," they needed mixtures of controllable specific gravity up to three times that of water. Pentachlorethane and tetrabromethane filled this bill-after the Du Pont men worked out a way to use them over & over again cheaply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metallurgical Miracles | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...theoretically therefore electors of the management. Bill Douglas set out to show that this was only theoretical, that mutual management was actually self-perpetuating-just as the Armstrong Investigation concluded over 30 years ago. Noting that in the 23 years since Metropolitan shifted to mutual status the management slate has never been opposed, Bill Douglas further noted that at election time it is customary for branch offices to instruct their agents to ask policyholders to sign election ballots. Last week more than a dozen Met agents claimed that it was general practice for them to sign the ballot themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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