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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made, simply because the authors sit in 1948's high places (e.g., Secretary of State Marshall England s Princess Elizabeth), or had high hopes of sitting there ("That's why it's time for a change," says Thomas E Dewey; "We want to feel dry and solid ground under our feet again," says Earl Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Familiar? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...place was crowded with more that people. Shades of Aunt Hagar and Sister. Kate filtered through the smoke and a lil ol' muskrat rambled in. For two solid hours in that staid Lowell House cubicle there were ladies of the new Orleans evening and the stale smell of K.C. gin. But for the grim visage of Abbot Lawrence Lowell above the fireplace it might have been any backroom in Chicago back in the days when Cicero was Cicero and not an essay in Life magazine...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Dixieland Band | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

Results were poor. When solid winter cloud layers were sprinkled with dry-ice pellets (or water droplets or chemicals such as silver iodide), practically nothing happened. In no case did rain start falling unless it was already falling less than 30 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

However, if the Council presents "a solid basis for the feeling that something is wrong," Bender said, the University might order a study anyhow. "But you can't say, 'Everybody thinks the food stinks,'" Bender explained. "You've got to have evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Outlines Food Poll | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

After arguing for two hours on how to grant Dean Bender's request for "solid evidence" on dining hall troubles, the Council settled on a specific poll to find out exactly which foods students like and dislike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Outlines Food Poll | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

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