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Word: czar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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When he reached Saradoff, the city where the Czar's summer palace had been before the Bolshevists came to power, Haratune found that American philanthropic agencies had their hands full keeping alive 30,000 people out of 5,000,000 who had died because of a famine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...false whiskers by either "abolishing intercollegiate football, as the Intellectually honest Dr. Robert M. Hutchins did at the University of Chicago or subsidize football players." He continues with an elaborate explanation of how Bill Bingham is the boss of every Dean of admissions in the Ivy League, a fotball Czar comparable to Judge Landis in baseball. Egan winds up his little dissertation by tacking that same confusing monicker on Boston College. It is an "Intellectually honest institution", says Egan, comparing it with Dr. Hutchins and Chicago. That simile is a rather difficult one to follow because the Eagles resemble Chicago...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...SAVE THE CZAR and I don't mean maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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