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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At least five women, including Helen Campbell's niece and the niece's maid, Parnell Thomas' aunt and daughters-in-law, were on the Congressman's payroll, drew about $20,000 in salaries and never did any work. One, a clerk-typist on the payroll of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Only a Question of Time? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the People | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"I like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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