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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip H. Theopold '25, partner in Minot DeBlois and Maddison, a Boston real estate firm; Fredrick M. Eaton '27, partner in Shearman, Sterling and Wright, New York law firm; John E. Lawrence '31, partner in the Boston cotton firm James Lawrence and Co.; and Albert L. Nickerson '33, president of Socony Mobil Oil Co. have also been nominated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduates State Candidacies For Overseers' Board | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...last number on yesterday's program was a medley of football songs, as arranged by G. Wright Briggs '31. One of his very finest, this medley shares with its band counterparts the ingenious device of playing one tune only until it is recognizable to the audience, and then quickly substituting another before the tedium should...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Lowell House Bells | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with torn copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captive Press | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Causes of World War III may not be the most important book of the century, but that is not to say that it shouldn't be. The propositions advanced by C. Wright Mills are so important and most of them seem so obvious that it is surprising that someone did not write this book earlier...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Drifting Quickly Toward World War III | 12/12/1958 | See Source »

Sleep Stopper. An ear alarm to keep truck drivers and night watchmen from dozing was put on sale by Wright Airborne Electronics, Kansas City, Mo. Called Driver-Larm, the device contains mercury that rolls about when the head nods, and closes a transistorized circuit sounding a buzz in the wearer's ear. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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