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Word: speciale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battery D began to give him grudging respect. He was fair. He claimed no special privileges and showed no favors. Then one black night, on a bald knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Old Stiffs | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...marked. Both the test paper and the stencil are then placed in a slot up against a panel of thick copper pins. When the machine is turned on, the pins pick up all pencil marks that show through the spaces in the stencil, because pencil marks made with special pencils, conduct electricity. The rest is simple. The machine just "counts" the number of electrical impulses and then stamps it on the exam paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inhuman Test Corrector Has Perfect Score | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...Boston & Maine announced yesterday that its snow trains would run for the first time this winter. There will be a special excursion train leaving North Station for North Conway at 8:10 a.m. tomorrow morning and due in the north country at 11:40 a.m. and returning at 5 p.m., giving passengers a whole afternoon of skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Has First Snowstorm; Is Skiiers Haven | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

William A. Heaman, Manager of dining Halls, and James Biggar '13, special assistant to vice-President Reynolds, represented the University at the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maids May Go if New Rise in Rent Menaces College | 1/27/1949 | See Source »

...book that Lamont has, in the proper proportion of course, and that, it is hoped, by the beginning of next term. The ordinary needs of the undergraduates will thus be satisfactorily provided for. Further, Widener will be open to Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates on exactly the same basis, for special research. If the fundamental approach of the authorities is accepted, as for the time it must be, this is a perfectly equitable arrangement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Speaks on Lamont | 1/27/1949 | See Source »

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