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Word: tennesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with Yale's daily ten-minute quizzes, which bestrew the path of luckless Senior and Freshman alike, the supervision of History 1 notes is innocuous. It is the difference between a helping hand toward good habits and a Sword of Damocles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLASS HOUSES | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

Expressing confidence in Ernie Sargeant, whom he ranked as the best lineman on the field Saturday, Harlow re-shifted Moses Hallett to tackle. For the past ten days Hallett has been alternating with Sargeant; he now returns as Tom Healey's substitute...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Harlow Changes Three Squad Posts; First Team Unaltered | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...should think that defenders of Harvard's laissez-faire educational tradition would view with alarm such a reversal of form as unannounced examinations of lecture notes. Yale, long reviled for her ten minute papers, can be accused of no such educational Inquisition. -The Yale Daily News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

Last week a Kentucky citizens' committee appointed by Mayor Joseph D. Scholtz finished its diagnosis of the aches and pains of Louisville's overexpanded, undernourished-city water system and wrote a prescription. Its remedy: turn the $22,000,000 system over to private operation for ten years. Responsible American Water Works & Electric Co., operator of some 80 other water plants, had offered to run the plant profitably for a portion or the savings it could make on operation. To Mayor Scholtz's committee, astounded by the low earnings under city management (2½%), flabbergasted by a helter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...past ten years Earl Mosley has also been City Manager (salary for all his jobs: $7,500 a year) and he knew what he was talking about. Colorado Springs beamed as he read the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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