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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...five Business School dining halls use student waiters and bus boys exclusively. The student waiters do their job efficiently and "many of them prefer it to other kinds of work." Dean Harris said. "The other students don't object to student waiting the slightest bit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICAL SCHOOL GROUP AGITATES FOR BETTER MEALS AT LOWER PRICES | 10/2/1940 | See Source »

...them crocodile tears) or swore. But the bearlike man from Indiana wouldn't admit he was licked. Even veteran newshawks begged him to cut down on his extraordinarily grueling speaking schedule. Smiling, he upped the pace, talked more, louder, longer. More important, he began to say things that bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Willkie in the West | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

This week General Charles de Gaulle and his Free Frenchmen went into action against "Free" (unoccupied) France. Quite a bit was at stake. Theirs was the first real test of the Frenchmen's revolt against France. If it succeeded, the whole French Empire might swing in line with London rather than with Berlin. Furthermore, there was an immediate stake: six pro-German French warships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: French v. French | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...idea of singin' at banquets, like the Chamber of Commerce and the gas company and all them other companies that give big feeds for the people who work for 'em. We put Sonny [her younger brother] in the business when we found they always paid a little bit more for three singers than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Harvard's gridiron hopes for the coming season sunk a bit lower when it was announced yesterday afternoon that John Page, Sophomore center, had a fracture of the tranverse processes of three vertebrae and would be unable to play any more this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squad Loses John Page For Season's Duration | 9/25/1940 | See Source »

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