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Word: ala (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Divided. In Montgomery, Ala., Henry and Bertha Williams separated as they had agreed to: he tore down his half of the house and carted it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, José Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham, Ala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Oh | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Married. James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 39, governor of Alabama; and Jamelle Moore, 21, secretary in the State Highway Department; in Rockford, Ala. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...writing center would not be an intangible thing; Harvard certainly needs no new buildings for this purpose, and probably no more than the six courses offered in the 1948-49 catalogue, although an increase in the number of sections of English Ala is desirable. The young writer-teachers, who are the backbone of the department's staff, will have to be offered sufficient inducements in tenure and chance of advancement so that they will not leave for the West at the first opportunity. The awarding of five-year professorships and Briggs-Copeland Instructorships to several writing teachers in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creative Writing | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

Visitor from the South. But politics raised its head immediately. A Mrs. Lennard Thomas of Montgomery, Ala. adjusted a floppy black hat adorned with pink plumes, gave the President "some little Southern pats" to attract his attention, and engaged him in conversation on his civil rights program. It went, said Mrs. Thomas later, like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Southern Pats | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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