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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On a country road outside Atlanta one day in 1945, a well-dressed man stopped his car to watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Strickland Plan | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Agrarian Problems. In 1943 Miss Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect who works in Danbury, Conn. Now they live, not far from Danbury, on a beautiful, 105-acre farm, "Marianna." Inside, the handsome, white frame, hillside house has been remodeled by Architect Fisher. He also designed the big, good-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Times were hard in Nanking, but the Fred Gruins had a fat goose (no turkeys available) and Fred Jr., aged five, was all set to chop down a little evergreen growing inside the bamboo fence of the Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Penguin Books in the U.S., financially independent of English Penguins but closely tied editorially, has never come close to the sales of its two-bit rivals, Pocket Books and Bantam Books. In seven years, Pocket Books has sold 152 million books in the U.S., by a canny formula of catering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odyssey on the Newsstand | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

In view of the limited transmission range, the proximity of the ten-acre site on Soldiers Field Road will offer superior reception for the potential Cambridge audience. The station will be linked to the nation-wide system of the National Broadcasting Company.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WBZ to Set Up Local Television Broadcasts | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

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