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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington strategists were optimistic. "We had to get them out of Washington," explained a Labor Department conciliator. "Murray was too far out on the limb to crawl back and the steel companies were fast getting into the same position on the opposite limb. Local bargaining may turn up something that can be made to fit the entire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Third Try | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...would turn Harvard Yard itself into a large traffic circle, with westbound traffic on Massachusetts Avenue turning up Quinsy Street and skirting Men Hall in order to reach Porter Square. But the narrowness of Quincy Street and the presence of students will probably force dropping this idea...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...under a system put into effect by the newly approved Union Constitution. While incoming classes in the past have been served by a group appointed by the Dean's office in cooperation with Yard proctors, this fall each proctorial unit will elect its own representative. This group will in turn elect ten officers who are to act as a cabinet; officers and committeemen, with the advice of the Secretary of the Union and the Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, direct and integrate class activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenge to '53 | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...memory system" consists of eight storage drums and a sequencing drum. Problems are solved by feeding information on a magnetic tape to the sequencing drum which in turn "commands" the computing section to accomplish the desired operations with the numbers in the storage drum. The results then come out of the machine on another magnetic tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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