Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such an unusual design, President Wriston had his reason and it had nothing to do with medievalism. For some time the Brown campus, with university-owned houses scattered over several Providence blocks, had been easy prey for sneak thieves. In one year they had made 'off with more than $8,000 worth of student property. President Wriston thought that the stockade would put a stop to that...
...Manhattan, Vogue's editors protested that they had reported the Paris fashions last year in the same Sept. 1 issue "with no protest" from the syndicate or the trade, and had no "official notice" of any change this year, had signed no new agreement. Added Vogue: "After 50 years of reporting French fashions, it is hardly likely that Vogue would now deliberately violate any promises given to the Couture...
...Gardner Cowles, about the kind of monthly class magazine she would like to start, she found herself repeating: "It's got to have flair." Says Fleur: "I couldn't get around the word. I just had to use it." After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish a new magazine next February. Its name: Flair. Its editor: Fleur...
...only English-language newspaper left in Shanghai, of the four flourishing when the Communists took over, is the British-owned, 99-year-old North China Daily News. Last week the Communists banned distribution of news by foreign news agencies, left "the Old Lady of the Bund" with little news to print...
...site of one of the early tribes has now come to light in Wyoming. In 1939 Jimmy Allen, sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads...