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Word: sullivans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justifying their position after a hurried glance at a passing whitewing named Sullivan, the Board of Health revealed that the order had been promulgated at a board meeting. The vote wasn't even close--23-2, in fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building Condemned by Board of Health Here | 4/1/1943 | See Source »

...confession was provoked by the Cambridge City Council. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, old foe of Harvard,* had persuaded from the Council an order to compel the University Overseers to surrender the statues as scrap metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fakes Unveiled | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Sullivan induced the Council to order Harvard, Radcliffe and M.I.T. to erase from thousands of books and maps the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad." Mayor John W. Lyons vetoed the order. Earlier, the Council had called on the State Legislature to rescue Cambridge from a "deepseated conspiracy" of Harvard "disciples of Karl Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fakes Unveiled | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the title for the glory of Boston's skating swells. Miss Goos, a newcomer to senior ranks, was trying to accomplish something no figure skater had ever done: win the novice, junior and senior titles in three successive years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Queenie & Co. | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...senior event, 18-year-old Arthur Vaughn Jr., son of a Philadelphia Main Line physician and brother of ex-Champion Jane Vaughn Sullivan, nosed out St. Paul's Arthur Preusch, Midwest champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Queenie & Co. | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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