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Word: classes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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They go to bed early, the theatres start at 7:30. Henri Bernstein's Elvira is first class and a big success, though those few rich pacifists are afraid it may irritate Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...recognizes as one of the most valuable and beautiful of U. S. documents: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. The materials he handles are incorruptibly good, but his tireless facetiousness is tiresome. Fair enough as a 579-page guidebook and commentary, The Good Old Days is not in the same class with any one issue of the catalogue itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...fine mess when out of an annual Harvard graduating class of 1000 men, 9,999 of them can't even go down to Central Square and talk to one of the inhabitants intelligently on the value of a liberal education...

Author: By Raymond Dennett and P.b.h. CONFERENCE Toastmaster., S | Title: The Crime | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...fellowships were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Richmond Sheldon, in memory of her husband, who was a member of the Class of 1842. The stipends of the fellowships total $14,725, and all but one will be for study in this country. Two of them have been awarded for work this summer, while the remaining 11 will be for the academic year beginning in the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 SCHOLARS HONORED WITH SHELDON AWARDS | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

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