Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WILLIAM A. ELAM Van Nuys, Calif...
Down Texas way, the saying is, "It's becoming more difficult to get into college everyday," or at least so 11-year-old Thomas Van Auken's father seems to think. Threatening to become the youngest applicant for admission since Cotton Mather, Tommie invaded the University Wednesday accompanied by Russell B. Howe of Boston, a friend of the family...
...their own. When election day came, Michigan voters swept him into the nomination with a 50,000 lead over his nearest rival. Their 3-to-1 majority over Democrats voting the same day made Kim Sigler a good bet to beat the Democrats' former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to the state house in the fall...
...were Orientals ever to fathom the inscrutable Western mind? Fifteen long blocks from the Diet Chamber, in the courtroom where Jap war criminals were being tried, spectators stood stiffly at attention as the judges filed out for the noon recess. The marshal of the court, Captain Donald S. Van Meter, rose and solemnly announced: "For the benefit of English-speaking persons, Louis won over Conn by a knockout in the eighth round...
Four of the painters in the show, Derain (66), Van Dongen (67), Segonzac (63), and Vlaminck (70), had been suspended from public showing for the past year (because they exhibited in Berlin during the war). Now their year of quiet humiliation was up, and the weary old foursome could creep into the daylight once again...