Word: warr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Undergraduates from colleges in New England will have an opportunity to continue their studies or travel outside the United States but within the Western Hemisphere, according to the terms of the Boston Globe World Warr II Memorial Fellowships, which will be reopened to eligible applicants during the first two weeks of October...
This Means You. In Atlanta, an overhead sign broke loose from its chain, dropped, beaned Smoker Loy L. Warr, who then discovered that the sign read: "No Smoking...
...Board of Education's 39-year-old President, Earl De La Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...
Because city schoolhouses were closed or pre-empted by war agencies, city school children enjoyed a long holiday. Lord De La Warr, president of Britain's Board of Education, estimated that at least 400,000 city children got "no schooling or care at all," ran wild in the streets. Said a worried London welfare officer: "Some children in the East End are going to bed at midnight and rising at noon. One magistrate has commented to me that we are encouraging a generation of Artful Dodgers." By last week the Board of Education agreed to reopen city schools...