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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...world premiere, replete with celebrities, floodlights, and engraved invitations will turn Massachusetts Avenue into Broadway at 11 p.m. The occasion is the first showing of "A Touch of the Times," student-written and produced flick. The University Theater will play host...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Glittering Premiere at U.T. Opens 'A Touch' Tonight | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...things now stand, "A Touch" is scheduled for a nation-wide tour some time in the near future. Its one-night stand in Cambridge, however, may turn out to be its only Boston showing. This fact, coupled with its timely premiere on the eve of a football weekend, has probably accounted for the sell-out anticipated by members of the club...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Glittering Premiere at U.T. Opens 'A Touch' Tonight | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

Answering an objection from the floor, Griswold debunked the old idea that one out of three students at Harvard Law are flunked out. "Actually, the number who don't come back after the first year is about 10 percent," he said. "And half of those turn out to be at some disadvantage, such as poor health, which would handicap them at any school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Testifies at First Hearing on Legal Education | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, predicted the the new ticket exchange information service will turn into a headache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Bureau Starts Well; Bingham Sees Grim Future | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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