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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not all joined Thomas in educating the foreign masses in the peculiarities of the American public servant-a good many worked diligently at learning something themselves, thus went practically unnoticed, and in a sense, wasted their personalities during their travels. But the bolder and more extraverted made up for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Travelers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"Perfume Junction." Only two Congressmen had to be carried off ships in a state of intoxication, only one threw all his luggage out a train window, and only two lost their pants (in a Spanish train), and complained about it publicly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Travelers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

All in all, Europeans were given ample evidence that the U.S. Congressman is a man who 1) smokes cigars and seems to be searching subconsciously for a cuspidor, 2) is a ferociously accurate judge of whisky, but is incredibly naive about the countries he visits, and 3) emits a regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Travelers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

/ do not love Louse Angeles, I came here all agog. To find myself a lone D.P., Invisible in smog.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Only a Question of Time? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Only a Question of Time? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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