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Word: way (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Edward F. Burke '50 appointed the committee last night after executives of the Liberal Union presented a brief to the Council stating the possible effect to the oath on undergraduates who are not affiliated with the Navy in any way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Investigate Navy Oath; New Organization Rules Presented | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...energy. Such rays would be much too feeble to reach the earth from outer space if they had to break through the magnetic field attributed to the sun. Therefore, Dr. Pomerantz announced last week, the sun must be bare of permanent magnetism, and the physicists must find some other way to explain its Zeeman effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Magnetic Field? | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...with its present policies without running into serious trouble. "We are so prosperous and rich that we can violate the rules for a time "and get away with it," warned W. Randolph Burgess, executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round of inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Too Many Blank Checks | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Where, oh where is that plump, goggle-eyed sugar daddy with the wing collar and the clipped white mustache, who always knew the one sure way to every bubble-breasted little golddigger's heart? "Still around, but dying out," reports Cartoonist Arno. "He got hit hard by the crash and all but vanished under a bale of taxes in the '30s. Nowadays you see all kinds of people in my drawings-cab drivers, boxers, doormen-people you never saw there before. Sign of the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shoo Shoo, Sugar Daddy | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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