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Word: attainable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women Who Hate & Follow. She did not attain her power as Lupescu did, nor in the way the suffragettes dreamed of in Ana's youth. She came up through 30 fighting years in the Communist Party, to which she contributed great courage and a good, if not brilliant mind. Her chief offering, however, was a blind loyalty which stood every test, including the party's purge of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Discover Our Soul." Against their democratic and humanitarian convictions, the majority of the party had followed cynical Pietro Nenni into a common front with the Communists. Only thus, they argued, could Socialism attain victory. In this bargain the party lost its soul and never collected its price. It was defeated roundly in the April elections. What to do now? Repudiate the Red alliance? Stick to it and shake off the moderate Socialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Pallbearers Wore Pink | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Puckered Bernarr Macfadden, 79, settled down at his Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, N.Y. for a delayed honeymoon with his blonde bride Jonnie, 42, who showed newsmen her current reading assignment: How to Attain and Practice the Perfect Sex Life. "I can't imagine anything more exciting than being married to Bernarr Macfadden," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Failure to attain Dean's List standing may no longer spell certain loss of scholarships for Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Rules May Be Widened | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...Apparatus carried out its determination is described in the last, galloping pages of Conspirator-a novel that is too much of a sheer thriller to attain real literary stature, but much too brilliantly written to be classed with ordinary whodunits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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