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Word: subjects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homework. Ostentatiously shocked by all this, Archie turned to the subject of Judy's purse. She readily admitted that she had been carrying notes of a document the FBI had planted on her desk. But she denied that she had been carrying the notes to the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: It Was Love | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Unstable. He will get no comfort from Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps, who has repeatedly said that he will not devalue. Cripps stands on the flat statement; he will not argue. One of his associates explained last week: "It's the unmentionable subject-like a lady's reputation." One man who recently talked devaluation with Cripps adds: "He would resign rather than devalue-and he is not in a resigning mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Quiet Crisis | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...period of passing excitement in this country as a consequence of the reactions which almost always follow a war and the tensions created by a divided world. As has happened repeatedly in the history of the universities, Harvard, along with other American institutions of advanced learning, is being subject to criticism, most of which is based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of university work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Conant's Speech | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

There are other difficulties. The Harvard newshound faces what is probably the world's most sarcastic readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Associated with the Herbarium for over 50 years, Weatherby was an authority on systematic botany. He published more than 125 articles on the subject, many on tropical groups of ferns, a subject that he studied in this country and in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weatherby Dies, Was 50 Years on Herbarium Staff | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

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