Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a report* on the average TIME-reading woman (some of whom are displayed on this page via the snapshots they sent us) to pose against the average TIME-reading man I discussed here a few issues ago (TIME...
...where was that? That was where the last Foreign Ministers' Conference broke up eight months ago in London, angry and in almost complete disagreement between Russia and the West. To return to that ill-fated council table might be a proper and necessary step, but it would not be an occasion for ringing bells to herald peace or springing the doves for joyous flutterings...
...England's richest men, he is serious about the ?18 million shipping fortune he inherited 15 years ago; through shrewd investment (insurance, breweries, coal, illustrated newspapers), he has run it up to some ?37 million. One of England's shyest men, he is almost pathologically serious about his privacy. One of his country homes is surrounded by barbed wire, the servants are forbidden to discuss him with neighbors, his telephone number is unlisted, and he hides behind an assumed name in public. But he is most serious of all about rats...
Memphis had waited a long time for the Keedoozle, Clarence Saunders' electrically operated grocery. He first announced it twelve years ago (TIME, July 6, 1936). Twice he had opened up, only to close when wires got crossed and customers got the wrong goods...
...fictional history of the U.S. were ever smelted down from the extant tons of costume novels, some of the better chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...