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Word: afters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At least one observer thought the whole question was academic. The day after the Louis-Valentino exhibition, Manager Tex Sullivan withdrew his fighter, Lee Oma, from a scheduled ten-round match with Louis in Detroit. Complained Sullivan: "Those aren't exhibitions, they're real wars . . . Louis isn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Champion Charles could have made it even stronger. At 35, for all the quarter-inch of fat that bulged over his purple trunks, Joe Louis still looked like the best heavyweight on two feet. Nursing a scuffed eyelid in his dressing room after the match, he was noncommittal when sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

White-haired Lorenzo Garcia, the only man allowed within its walls, had been the cloister's sexton for almost 40 years when his curiosity about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

While Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Yet the problem of building a functional church involves more than letting the construction materials show. The function of a church, after all, "is primarily one affecting the spiritual and emotional side of man." In other words, modern "expendable" churches may be bare but not barren, small but not confining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Billion-Dollar Question | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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