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Word: unexpectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally it had been planned that the balcony should be reserved for parents, and possibly even some of the floor of the church. But the unexpected demand for tickets necessitated an over-flow meeting in Sanders Theatre. Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge, former Master of Lowell House, is expected to preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Crowd Expected Sunday For War Valedictory Exercises | 1/8/1943 | See Source »

To the U.S. last week came a shock as profound as if the sun had suddenly gone into unexpected eclipse. In a third of the nation men & women of the great American automobile age awoke to find they could no longer buy gasoline. The automobiles in which they rode to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Troubled Oils | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Barring catastrophies, unexpected reversals, and the other quaint tricks which make sports events unpredictable, John Chase's hockey team will romp to its second straight win tonight when it faces M.I.T. at the Boston Skating Club in a fracas scheduled for 8:15 o'clock.

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Hoopsters Face Brown; Pucksters Meet Underdog Tech | 12/9/1942 | See Source »

I wish I could round out this report by telling you the latest news about Henry B. Cole, our native correspondent on the Guinea Coast, but we last heard from him three months ago in Monrovia. He has worked for TIME three years now, sending us all sorts of unexpected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Medal for Moving | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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