Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police detectives have so far failed to turn up the key or the thief who broke into Brown's apartment Monday morning and made off with the key, shirt studs, an electric clock, a sun lamp, and a portable radio...
...officials of the court will be in uniform and will wear pistol belts. Army tradition dictates that the detail of courtmartial must be armed, and before the war members of military courts were sabers. Later the sabers gave way to pistols, which in turn were succeeded by pistol belts...
...from the vantage point of history, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 has been able to make an impartial study of one of the great figures of that time. He takes J. Pierpont Morgan, whose name at the turn of the century was the symbol for economic power, and shows his character and motives. Allen asks, "What kind of man was he, who more than any other was responsible for the growth of huge, monopolistic business enterprise...
...Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...candidate, and candidates can run without party label. However, proponents of this method of voting state that it eliminates the evils of the ward system and destroys the power of the "ward boss" over city officials; the councilmen are responsible only to the people And, since the Council in turn appoints a city manager, the voters have direct control over the entire civic administration...