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Word: returns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...revitalized League of Nations" is the way to a lasting peace for 24 per cent of the students. Completing the overwhelming majority which favors a lenient peace are the 19 per cent who advocate a return to "status quo before Hitler with just economic provisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Poll Opposes Third Term, Favors Lenient Peace | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

Featured by the return of Jim Curwen to form, the Varsity swimmers overwhelmed a weak but plucky Boston Y. M. C. A. team last night by a score of 52 to 23. Curwen turned in a 24.4 50 and a 53.9 100 to register the tidiest times of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Vanquish Boston YMCA by 52 to 23 in a Dull, Colorless Contest | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...cars, but only to make up for far more numerous bad days when no cars go at all. The average is probably not above 100 cars per day. Reasons: 1) a shortage of rolling stock (Germany, whose own rolling stock is in very bad condition, is extremely slow in returning Rumanian cars); 2) shortage of coal from Germany to stoke the engines; 3) sabotage and inefficiency along the 170-mile stretch of railroad from Oraseni, on the Rumanian border of old Poland, where Rumania hands over the oil, to Jaroslaw in German-occupied Poland. Pretty well confirmed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Oil War | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...stockholders' meeting of Barnsdall Refining Corp. The meeting was in Tulsa that afternoon, and unless he got there in time, a deal was going through whereby the individual stockholders were going to be reduced to a mere 13% minority and control of the company was going to return to Barnsdall Refining's onetime parent, Barnsdall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Stockholder Rich | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Experiment the brief return home of a young man of proved genius brings on a family reunion, throws his relatives some into sad, some into bitter reflection upon the three frustrate generations it took to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odor of Soap | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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