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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Pace. In Hilo, Hawaii, Dr. William F. Leslie, after losing 1) one automobile in a tidal wave, 2) his second car in a storm, 3) his third new car in a dock accident, announced that he was in the market for a horse & buggy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Saskatchewan's CCF bookkeeping has been questioned before. But according to the official figures, in the first half of the current fiscal year (from April 1 to Sept. 30, 1946), the province's socialized businesses made a capitalistic net profit (after deduction of depreciation reserves) of $329,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Socialism's Beachhead | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

So long as Allentown kept marching (it had won 60 straight), there was no argument about which of the 16,000 high-school teams was the nation's best. Coach Jay Birney Crum's champions were no accident; he had simply brought collegiate production-line tactics down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champs by Crum | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

The first prefabricated theater in the U.S., designed to do practically every thing for the patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: 303 Wonders | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Now 37, Jennie Tourel is the daughter of a traveling Russian businessman and "was born in Montreal by accident." She lived most of her life in Paris. At first, studying singing, she couldn't agree with a voice teacher who "put me in the mouth some kind of apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Versatile Jennie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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