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Yard police, hearing rumors of illicit proceedings, rushed to the Business School, but only to find that Patricia Archambault and Rita Hamlin, a couple of Thespians from Emerson, had uprooted and pilfered an ivy vine, to be used at the dedication of Emerson's new theatre on Saturday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIRL DUO PILFERS IVY FROM WALL OF GRADUATE DWELLING | 6/7/1940 | See Source »

4. Religious change did come in the reign of Edward VI, was destroyed by Mary, re-established by Elizabeth, uprooted by Oliver Cromwell, and "restored" by Charles II. So if the Church of England must have a royal founder, it was Charles II. And he was a Roman Catholic. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Two years ago Harvard's dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, petitioned by the faculty, appointed a faculty committee (including Felix Frankfurter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Magna Charta | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

> Five million kulaks were uprooted, their property confiscated, an unknown number exiled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dreams and Realities | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Broken communication lines, uprooted roads and rail tracks cut the area off from the rest of Chile. Not until amateur radio operators sent out terse pleas for help, did Santiago, where only slight tremors were felt, learn of the damage. At dawn a Government plane headed south to survey the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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