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Word: current (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minority of the clubs "will never agree to this system." The University has no actual right to step in and take action without unanimous approval of the new quota system and without unanimous approval of the inter-club committee, something that seems impossible at present. Hence the current stalemate...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Father Leonard Feeney, in his first speech since his dismissal from the Society of Jesus last week, spoke on the current state of the Jesuits at St. Benedict's Center last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney Protests Present State of Society of Jesus | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...think that Hollywood has gone to pot since the war, send an acquaintance to the Kenmore to see the two revivals now on display there. Do not go yourself. Your friend will return singing the praises of current productions, for the pair of films are respectively mediocre and ghastly...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...members made it clear that their organization "did not arise out of a desire to remedy any particular current situation." They would prefer, at the outset, to limit activities, and invite guest-lecturers from social-service ranks to help clarify the present need for the understanding of human relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Organization Will Study Negro Problems Locally | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

Strange as it may seem, the better parts of the current so-called extravaganza do not involve Mr. Autry. He breaks up the program nicely, coming on twice, in events number four and 11 (there are 14 altogether), and appearing just long enough to knock off a few songs, send his horse Champion and the up-and-coming Little Champion through their paces, and introduce a bunch of Pueblo, Indian dancers from New Mexico. Champion, a handsome animal, dances to the Army Air Corps song, "La Cucaracha," and "The Blue Danube" and bounds through a couple of hoops; Little Champion...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE RODEO | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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