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Word: agers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barren room in Paris' venerable Sorbonne, a dimpled blonde teen-ager stood quaking before five quizzical professors. With quavering chalk she diagramed on a blackboard the working of a steam engine. Then, taking up other items of her examination, she stumbled through an account of the history of Japan from 1875 to 1905, explained the functioning of an eardrum and expounded her ideas on the philosophical principles of mathematics. When it was over she tremblingly left the room and, whispering "My stomach aches," took her place with other waiting youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Even if rotary traffic flunks the thirty day test, the Cambridge Planning Beard promises to try other measures. Constantly aware of the danger and annoyance that exist 12 hours a day just outside of Harvard Yard City Man ager Atkinson is at present considering new proposals...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...beautiful, blue-eyed girl of 19" when she took over the job of teaching the one-room school at a place he chooses to call Lonesome Valley, Ky. She came home shortly after that a nervous wreck. Among other things, one of her gangling first-graders, a teen-ager named Guy Hawkins, had blacked her eyes and "whipped her before the Lonesome Valley pupils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Ager, John Winfrid, Jr. '49, Ames, Charles Oakes '48 ocC, Bramhall, Robert Richard '49, Bullard, Frederic Keil, Jr. '46 ocC (Captain), Combs, Preston Craig '50, Frey, John Marshall '50, Gordon, David James '51, Hatton, Richard Davis '49, Higgins, Linnaces Boyd '49, Hughes, Hillard Withers, Jr. '50, Key, David McKendree, Jr. '49, Reese, James Mitchell, Jr. '51, Robb, James Hampden, Jr. '50, Swartzman, Howard Lynn '47 ocC, Toblas, Paul Henry '51, Zinsser, Thomas Wood '50, Laud, Skiddy Marden '51 (Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Lists Spring Letter Winners | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Doubles--Ager and Bullard (H) defeated Hands and Ray (Y), 6-4, 7-9, 6-4; Higgins and Key (H) defeated LaRoche and Aymar (Y), 2-6, 8-6, 6-4; Ames and Hughes (H) defeated Carr and Hunt (Y), 4-6, 8-6, 8-6; Bramhall and Reese (H) defeated Russell and Smith (Y), 7-5, 6-3; Slote and Stokes (Y) defeated Combs and Zinsser...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Squad Loses to Yale By One Point | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

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