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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't want to leave without making expenses some way," His Majesty explains," so I wandered over to Cambridge one afternoon. There were a lot of students up in front of an office . . . paying fees and depositing valuables for safe-keeping, and I got a good look at the safe. . . I figured I could almost hit it with a can opener...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Circling the Square | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, left the United States by plane yesterday on his way to Germany, where he will spend the summer interviewing Russian displaced persons on a special project for the Russian Research Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fainsod Travels to Germany To Interview Russian DPs | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...which went for representatives' expenses to various conventions. The rest of the budget consists of many small items. The total of these is greatly increased by the lack of any coordination in spending. The Council approves an expenditure, and a committee chairman takes care of it in his own way. For example, the Council's printing this year was handled by numerous companies throughout New England. A large contract with one printer would undoubtedly be cheaper. This coordination calls for either an expansion of the treasurer's duties to something besides signing checks or hiring a student business manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

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