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Word: abell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pictures were used in the 1700s for the same reason that they are used today: to catch the eye of the reader and lure him into reading the ad. At first their use was infrequent, because they were too expensive. But in the early 1800s one Abel Bowen, engraver, produced a batch of stock woodcuts, laid them out for cheap sale to magazines, newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies: 1833-1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...what his men all said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were his raids that General Sherman once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury." Forrest never was taken. At the war's end he weighed a plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: From Black Creek to Kiel | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Prophet | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Amid the fresh salt breezes that blow over Bermuda's romantic coral sands, a medical student from Manhattan last week found his heart hopelessly swaddled in British red tape. He was Levon Abel Akopiantz, on his way home from Lisbon aboard the famed Excalibur. During the long voyage westward he had spent his time writing a letter to his fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Levon's Love Letter | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Arise, My Love (Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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