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Word: asked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself writing about trees. This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Rising at Mahwah | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Mirrors & Backboards. To be able to master the T, says Leahy, his boys must first kindle a "burning desire" to learn. One of his psychological stunts consists of having a player look into a mirror and ask himself "if he is giving 100% for his teammates and his school." Since deception is the crux of the T, faking is pounded into Notre Dame backs along with the other fundamentals. In practicing fakes, Leahy's quarterbacks must almost deceive themselves - they have to stare at the man they are faking to so intently that, afterwards, they can tell Coach Leahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association opposed it, protesting that it was medication by legislation. But the producers have assured Mrs. Bolton and PHS that they will use their advertising and publicity programs to promote the use of iodized salt. Mrs. Bolton, whose 22nd Ohio District is in the goiter belt, had taken up the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pass the Iodized Salt | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Art | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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