Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual Freshman Football Managerial competition starts Monday and will be open to all men in College in their first or second term...
...Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving a term, and parish watchmen were aged criers, of small use in chasing or collaring villains. Novelist Henry Fielding, while a magistrate, founded London's "Bow Street runners" to pursue criminals- the catch being that the criminal had to be reported before he got out of sight. The professional "thief taker...
Criminal proceedings were brought only against the associations, which cannot serve a prison term; officers of the associations, who conceivably could, were named in a civil suit only. Despite such dove-roaring, however, Washington expected the flow of indictments to continue. For Tom Clark's crusade was so patently political that almost every businessman could expect some accusation of one sort or another before next year's election...
...plan is now ready. When the University opens for the fall term, two "Neighborhood Colleges" in public libraries will also open. One will be for Negroes ; under Kentucky's Day Law, Negroes and whites may not attend the same school. University professors and instructors will teach the courses - art, science, literature, history. The libraries will provide text books...
...Variant of the Hollywood term, "Boffo Terrif," big box-office smash...