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Word: pers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total amount raised by the School and College Group was $53,600, of which Harvard contributed 55 per cent, without counting $20,252 of special gifts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTES OVER $50,000 TO DRIVE | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

Very occasionally, students who persistently ignore the parking rules and fail to bring their tickets to General Alfred's office. Are charged on their term bill for $2 per ticket, Yard police explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS ESCAPE FINES FOR VIOLATIONS OF PARKING RULES | 2/13/1940 | See Source »

...releasing and harnessing this energy was a wild dream. Then, early in 1939, Hahn and Strassmann of Germany, with help from France, Sweden and Denmark, used neutrons to break uranium atoms into two nearly equal fragments, with release of some 200,000,000 electron-volts of atomic energy per atom (TIME, Feb. 6; March 13). This was by far the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Might-Have-Been | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...with a dash of psychology thrown in. Montgomery plays the part of a gangster in post-Prohibition Chicago who is making a pretty penny out of Kilmount's Breath of Heather Scotch, when he hears of his accession to an English title. His partner is Edward Arnold, a 100 per cent honest lawyer, whom Silky has previously framed and sent to Joliet for seven years. This is the background against which is thrown the concatenation of events leading to Silky's trial, conviction, and execution as the Earl of Galay. Arnold and British-born Edmund Gwenn support Montgomery superably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

Coach Fesler started a team that was forced to give away roughly three inches and 30 pounds per man to the E. I. L. defending champions, led by an uncanny marksman, Gus Broberg. Dartmouth had been able to win as it pleased, toying with the Feslermen in the first meeting of the two teams at Hanover, but Wednesday's return bout was one of the best basketball games ever played on the Indoor Athletic Building floor...

Author: By Donald Paddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

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