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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which the New Orleans States estimated would cost the state no less than a billion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Happy Days | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Anyone in the town is free to buy the book, the booksellers explained, but as for the Wellesley students, "Well, you know, a thing like this . . . not for girls that age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Craved Kinsey Report Bruised at Wellesley | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

...radical improvement over the last. Recognizing this, a Student Council committee will propose three suggestions on Saturday to the excentive committee of regional NSA that may help in bringing order out of chaos that was the bi-regional NSA conference held at Boston University a few weekends age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional Failings | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

...already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described in two recently published books: Hypnotism Comes of Age, by Bernard Wolfe and Raymond Rosenthal (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), and The Story of Hypnotism, by Robert W. Marks (Prentice-Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Svengali Influence | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Mirabeau is strong, not altogether pleasant, reading. Mirabeau's true greatness emerges in his courage and vitality, and in the tenacity with which he held to his ideal of justice through the terrific injustices of his own life and age. Despite the memorable phrases of the Rights of Man, and his orations, readers will be most moved by his little forlorn admissions of the sickness of the age in which he lived, a sickness he recognized dimly that he shared. He seems not to have been driven by a clear vision of a better order; he had simply, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Hurricane | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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