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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need them, and I don't think they need the bill at all with the voluntary enlistments they are getting." This week, as the bill went to a joint House-Senate conference committee, the best anyone hoped for was a compromise which would set the lower age limit for draftees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One More Try | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Last week at Chester Assizes the cog that had rebelled against the machine age was sentenced to five years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt of the Cog | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...attempt to blow up his dikes in order to pin the blame on the opposition. But if he won his race, millions would live to bless Oliver Todd as millions had blest old Emperor Yu, who tamed the Yellow River (temporarily) 4243 years ago, in China's Golden Age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Man from Palo Alto | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Neo-Orthodoxy: Round Two | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Nevertheless, giant General Electric Co. was brimming over with high hopes for the Atomic Age. Already G.E. had committed itself to an extensive program of basic atomic research. At the Knolls, outside Schenectady, the company will build a 300-acre research center to house its dangerous new activities. Meanwhile, armed with their 100,000,000-volt betatron and other high-voltage machines, its scientists are studying the "meson," a mysterious, sub-atomic particle which may hold the key to a revolutionary course of atomic power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Piles for Peace | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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