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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Old Zamg | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Community singing of Christmas carols will conclude the festivities. According to party chairman Ernest T. Berkely '53, the reading of Dickens' work will re-establish a Christmas tradition begun many years age by Charles T Coneland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emertius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Reads Dickens To Freshmen Tonight | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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