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Word: slates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty members of the Freshman Debating Club opened their 1942 season last Wednesday evening with the election of a slate of five officers. Meeting in the Union Lower Common Room, the Yardlings issued a call for all men interested to attend their next meeting on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Debating Officers | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Kirkland, Leverett, and Lowell made it two straight in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon as they gained lop-sided victories over Eliot, Adams, and Dunster respectively. Winthrop evened the season's slate at one win and one loss, setting back Dudley to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Lowell, Leverett Unbeaten | 12/11/1941 | See Source »

...captive mines, they struck at mines already under contract-in the Allegheny County region around Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River Valley, in the mountains of West Virginia. Only a few tried to keep on working. At Edenborn, Pa., a group of them posted themselves around the slate dump, fired on pickets with revolvers and shotguns, wounded more than a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Until April 1943 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Other Plan E supporters indicated more hope. Martin Morton, Jr., a graduate of the Law School stated that he was "confident I'll get in" and maintained that "a majority of the Plan E slate will be elected." John H. Corcoran '18 believes that the Plan E slate will "come out very well," but like other candidates he finds that situation very confused, because of the large number of campaigners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Issue Flier; Red-Bait Plan E Group | 11/4/1941 | See Source »

...exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts, dealers would not promise deliveries, and in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard was pleading in vain for priorities for farm machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: Fever Chart | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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