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Word: toward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rankin's Revenge | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...many "number 125" at the base of the pyramid. The next night he becomes a "number 11" and must bring two new members, each with two dollars, to keep the organization intact. On each subsequent night, as new members multiply and form pyramids behind them, he is pushed toward the peak of his pyramid, until on the 12th night he becomes a number i and theoretically receives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Friendship & a Fast Buck | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Customers. The Pyramid Club idea also attracted a glib throng of amateur and professional confidence men -there were numerous ways of sidetracking money during its hand-to-hand progression toward the top of the pyramid. In Detroit, Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Garber said: "There are enough innocent people winning from $800 to $1,500 to keep the chain process alive. But I have yet to find anyone who has won the $4,096." But newspapers which warned against Pyramid Clubs or prosecutors who tried to break them up, quickly discovered that the pyramiders had no wish to be saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Friendship & a Fast Buck | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Does a college education warp a woman's attitude toward marriage?" is the subject of a preliminary debate to be given at Hillel House at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Morris J. Wexler 1L is on the affirmative, and Ailene S. Pressman '51 of Radcliffe is on the negative side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Warps Women Is Hillel Debate Topic | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe swimmers will get a chance to push their inter-class sports totals further toward the cherished trophy by entering the second half of the water intramurals at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Annex pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Intras Open at Radcliffe | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

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