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Word: furthering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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"The Director of the Passport and Permit Office presents his compliments to Mrs.- , and, in reply to her further appeal, regrets to inform her that, further consideration having been given to her case, it is not possible to make an exception to the general rules governing the grant of permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Nor was the war's effect limited to looting. London's crime-of-the-week was a strange mercy murder: A. R. P. Worker James Miller, 45, garroted his mother, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Miller, 74, to spare her further misery in sleeping crouched on tube steps. He explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crime Boom | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Unity. The labor vote was an affirmative vote. But many a vote for Roosevelt had been cast negatively, by men whose doubts of him had been exceeded only by their doubts of Willkie and the Republican leadership. Further, millions of votes had been cast against him, and perhaps a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Newest minstrel of Arthurian romance is bearded, falconry-loving T. H. White, onetime English schoolmaster. The Sword in the Stone (1938), a tale of young Arthur's education in the hands of the wizard Merlyn, was so brightly fanciful that Walt Disney purchased it to succeed Snow White, Pinocchio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Going Strong | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Four committees to further the movement were formed, in the first day of its life, according to Robert G. Nasau '42 of the H.S.U. Executive Committee, and approval was obtained form Raymond Dennett, graduate secretary of Philips Brooks House; Russell Nixon, instructor of Economics and secretary of the Massachusetts Branch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. Starts Button Campaign To Prevent More War Hysteria | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

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