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Word: afters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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I was a Yank correspondent covering the Yamashita trial. I was convinced that he was a man of unusual caliber who was being railroaded. I left the trial after nine days because I felt as though I were watching a lynching. The twelve reporters who remained for the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

I am sorry that two items were omitted from your article . . . First, the names of the students who were most closely associated with the isolation of streptomycin in 1943-Miss Doris Jones, Dr. Albert Schatz, Miss Elizabeth Bugie and Dr. H. Christine Reilly. Second, the fact that Dr. Dubos did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Gradually, however, Bell got to know his way around and people started to talk. One afternoon he was talking to Costello's attorney in his office when Costello, who had been out of town, walked in. After the introduction the gambler said: "What's this TIME? It'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

The position was offered had decided last spring after Compton had decided to resign. Conant was one of the leaders in the United States development of atomic energy and served from 1941 to 1946 as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Refuses Leadership Of War Development Board | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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