Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, which had hoped to build 250,000 houses by the end of the coming winter, now felt it would be lucky to provide 40,000. Like Japanese everywhere, families were living chockablock; the average citizen had only six square feet of housing space. In Tokyo's Ushigome ward, authorities held a lottery to determine which of 19,000 applicants would get the 416 new houses. About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted barges, burned-out buses or the ruins...
...bridge, chess, stamps, and photography ave been operating for the last two weeks, have been operating for the past two weeks, with a Music Club recently proposed. All activities are under the supervision of William C. Bradford, secretary of the Union, and the Union Committee, of which James Ward '50 is chairman...
Suppliers of roller bearings, window fasteners, floor mats, etc. were subjected to the same kind of buying he had once practiced at Montgomery Ward's. Examples...
Sole sober note amidst all the Bachannalian preparations was sounded by Louis Croteau, executive secretary of the Watch and Ward Society, from the recesses of the Christian Endeavor Building in downtown Boston...
...lineup: Harvard Freshmen: Leavitt, l.e., Bradlee, l.t., Guiders, l.g., Ward, c., Hickey, r.g., Reed r.t., Mazzone, re., Kenary, q.b., Cramton, l.h.b., Mofile...