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Word: staggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rent re-adjustments on the basis of room desirability, while badly needed, will not be enough. The University must stagger the fall increase itself, so that most of it is borne by those who can best afford it. This means holding as many rooms as possible in the low price-range, within reach of "marginal" students who even now are close to a financial chasm. The problem is admittedly difficult, but if the University takes considerate and forthright action to find the least painful solution, its good faith in rent policy will not be called into question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC and the Roomin' Doctrine | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

...Like This. . . In Springfield, Mass., Joseph A. Passineau was acquitted of drunkenness when he explained that he was a bulldozer driver, persuaded the jury that his stagger was really an "occupational sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Harry J. McCann and Russell S. Fisher, who conducted the post-mortem, the .22 calibre bullet entered the left side of the brunette's head, and failed to penetrate the orbital region of the brain. Hence they concluded that the Vassar honors graduate would have been able to stagger 50 feet from the place where she actually discharged the weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide Earns Experts' Vote In Flint Death | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

Chief among these is the preparation of new check-off-lists, upon which each man will be assigned a number, eliminating the bottleneck producing procedure of signing for meals. Commencement of classes will also tend to stagger at least the breakfast and luncheon lines, and the opening of the new graduate dining hall in Vansert Hall Monday eases the burden still further...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoother Food Service for Union Predicted by Secretary Bradford | 9/25/1946 | See Source »

Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Useful Fog | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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