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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Custodian of U.S. security, articulate exponent of the atomic age, David E. Lilienthal. Behind the curtain of AEC security measures, he is doing a job of greater importance and consequence than anyone anywhere in 1947. Applications of atomic energy in industry and medicine are more enduring contributions to progress in this or any year than forensic effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...part, the U.S. was not dissatisfied. Of the 134 defense sites occupied temporarily during the war, almost all had been restored. The remaining 14-fighter strips and radar outposts-would give the Panama Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Millions for Defense | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Kilty asserted that difficulties that have forced most great actors to wait until middle age before acting Hamlet will be dispensed with by re-interpreting him as a young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hamlet's Wins HTW Assent As Next Show | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...fine upstanding old man who loved dogs and children and an occasional nip. He had a beard that was white and hoary with age and he made his living as a manufacturer of men's souls. In a way, he was very proud of his job because the souls that he made were very good souls, some of them were almost flawless...

Author: By Age / and Stella Paskudnick, S | Title: Moving and Dreadful Little Story Captures Crimson Literary Award | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...different kind of party for these three-year-old children of Harvard students. Twenty of them, representing Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, gathered in the Harvard University Nursery School yesterday and kindled the seven branched menorah in joint observance of the age-old Hebrew festival of Chanukah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nursery Learns Tolerance at Yuletide, Chanukah Parties | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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