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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lampoon editors last night were contradictory in their evaluations of last Saturday's clash with the Yale police force, in which officers seized 300 copies of the 'Poon's parody football program while it was being distributed on the grounds of the Yale Bowl.

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: Encounter With Yale Policemen Causes Conflict Between 'Poonies | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

In contrast to Crawford, 'Poon President Edward Tarlov '60 took a broad view of the matter, laughing off the confiscation as a "pretty poor effort." He grounded his assertion on the fact that, despite police action, 'Poon candidates had been able to sell a large number of parodies on Bowl...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: Encounter With Yale Policemen Causes Conflict Between 'Poonies | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

The company's fees were about $1,800,000 a year when Booz retired in 1946 and Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Company Doctors | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile. Rommel spent the longest day of all streaking to the front; but by the time (close to midnight) he arrived at his headquarters, nearly all of the 24 hours that he had prophetically claimed would decide the fate of Germany were over. In a mixture of egocentrism and utter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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