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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once you got inside you aren't quite so sure. The faces are strange, the plays look more like the Chicago Bears than Harvard. One or two of the players bring back other days, but you're probably just about ready to tap someone on the shoulder and check your location when you catch sight of the indestructible element, the Harvard in Harvard football...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Passing the Buck | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Morgan still thinks of himself as unemployed. "Radio is my hobby. I don't have a vocation." Only his worst humor is broadcast, he says. "There aren't more than 3,500 people who can understand the good stuff. Most people don't understand anything. There are too few people as intelligent as I am." He adds: "I'm intelligent, but misguided. If I had any real talent, I'd go straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Satirist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...wits, parried all questions with ease. Then he lectured his interrogators on Existentialism. "How does it happen," the police commissioner bellowed, "that you know such crazy people?" Said Roumeguere: "I am a psychiatrist. It is my business to know crazy people. But how about the people you associate with? Aren't most of them criminals?" In a few days, Roumeguere was turned loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Existentialist Murder? | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...sheriff said "he thought he had heard the nigger yelling something like, 'Don't take me.' " But he didn't pay much attention. Albert Harris turned up the next morning. All he remembered was a voice saying, "You're a good nigger-we aren't going to hurt you much." He'd been hit on the head with a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Quiet Week | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...flowers and cake and never say who it is from." At Maxwell Field, Alabama, she had an experience that amazed her: the commanding general conducted her all over the air base. In Russia it just couldn't happen to a stranger, let alone a foreigner. Said she: "General, aren't you afraid I might be a Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Visitor from Moscow | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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