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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plain Tripe. Roaring like a subway express, Commissioner Moses retorted: "This is just plain tripe . . ." He pointed out that the buildings will house more tenants than the "rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Nightmares for Old? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

My home in a tree in Hundred Acre Wood was blown down on such a blusterous day as this. Thereupon an acquaintance did a Noble Thing. Since I didn't intend that what happened to my Uncle Robert should happen to me, I accepted the Noble Thing he allowed. He...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More . . . | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

In Georgia's Toombs County, deep in the dark land of white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Just Another Killing | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Son of Edward B. Smith (founder of the Edward B. Smith & Co. investment house, which later merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: New Club Member | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Summers, the clan moves to their 122-acre farm, where a hilltop had been leveled to make an athletic field. To this day, Tim Sr. has trouble calling off the names of his offspring, usually ends any listing by saying: "Now, hold on-have I got them all?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conway's Boys | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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