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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite her tremendous drawing power (she once broke attendance records in Boston during a blizzard that stopped traffic and closed the schools), some of Broadway's top producers and directors swear they will never again have any truck with her. (Says one: "The woman is constitutionally unable to fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

She is a chain-talker, and the only thing that stops her momentarily is the need for oxygen; she gasps, and the unpunctuated torrent of words gushes on until she must breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

The cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Negro Attorney Martin A. Martin (and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) went to court last year, got a federal judge to order the two schools "substantially equalized" by fall. As a result, the local board bought a new pump and $480 worth of books for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Road, Two Buses | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Many a professional specialist had begun to wonder whether the Dow theory, a useful barometer in less stormy times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Wave | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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