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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday in Virginia | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

"Expenses of the Fire Society are paid constantly by the people.. . . [It collects] for 'comforting the National Army.' This is paid in the form of live pigs and cash. ... As it has worked out this year, the 'official funds' to be paid by one mu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mopping Up the People | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

If the weather this Fourth of July weekend is warm, and sunny, the U.S. people will go to their zoos by the hundreds of thousands. From New York's 251-acre Bronx Zoo to San Diego's magnificently landscaped Balboa Park, they will wander along the tree-shaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

He is. Bachelor Horton tots up every restaurant check himself, fills his pockets with tiny slips of paper listing his little daily expenses to be passed along to his manager-brother, Winter D. Horton. "Taxes, you know," explains Edward, who pays taxes on considerably more than his stage & screen income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Edward & Henry | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

British scientists found last year that IPC killed certain grain plants. U.S. scientists took the hint and tried the stuff on quackgrass, alias witchgrass, one of the peskiest weeds in the northern U.S. As little as 10 lbs. an acre, Agriculture reports, does the deed, killing even the nine-lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grass Killer | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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