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Word: air (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years and now turns out news films for a worldwide audience of moviegoers, this was a major assignment. In the first place, this was Eisenhower's story, and his account had to be reproduced faithfully in pictures. Secondly, MOT found itself overwhelmed with riches. The U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff (120) and the know-how to cull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Talking Out of Turn | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Robert Low Bacon is the leading Republican hostess, a tall, tweedy woman with an air of conscious aristocracy who, in the nervous summer of 1948, was heiress presumptive to Mrs. Mesta's crown. At her small, select salon in the John Marshall house there is no foolishness about fun or songs. Each table is assigned a topic of conversation and their hostess sees that her guests stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Conant House contains two buildings, one of seven stories and one of five, overlooking central London, it stands in a lot on which stood a mission hall, ten tenement houses, and a laundry before German air raids cleared the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Honored by Harvard's Birthplace | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...first Harvard wrestling team to travel by air left Logan Airport yesterday afternoon for Ithaca and the eastern intercollegiate championships. The tournament starts at 1 p.m. today in Cornell's Barton Hall...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Wrestlers Leave by Air for East Championships | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

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