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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nagasaki is surprisingly full of smiles and surprisingly empty of hate. The A-bomb epicenter is a small park of less than an acre around a low, earthen mound topped by a plain wooden shaft. Seven young arborvitae trees circle the mound. A sign in English and Japanese states that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report from Nagasaki | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

In Wickford Point, which he finished next, he drew on Newburyport detail, conventionally disguised, for "a story on the various relationships of a family." Some of Marquand's own family thought he drew too close. His cousins the Hales, and Renee Oakman Bradbury decided that they had been drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

At Wagner's ten-acre Wisconsin kennel, Dorian von Marienhof did so well at begetting blue-blooded pups that three-quarters of the 24 boxers in the Special Champion Class last week, at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, had his blood in their veins. The best of them, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prize Brute | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Flush Toilets & Farms. The inch-by-inch family farming here produces among the highest per-acre yields in the world, or Japan would long since have starved. There have been grave postwar shortages: fertilizers and farm supplies. Nitrates are now so scarce that human manure provides half the nitrogen used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

The Perkins Hall parking lot is a disgrace to the alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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