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Word: bal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, would not be valid in New York because the State Constitution specifies that every candidate running must be listed; 2) it is easy for a soldier to vote under the Dewey-sponsored law. Federal law requires that each soldier & sailor shall be handed a postcard application for the bal lot. All he has to do is send this to Albany and he will receive his ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dewey Week | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

These three episodes comprise Flesh and Fantasy. A dash of the supernatural, mild surprise endings and Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) are about all that they have in common. But polish and humor make them fairly entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Into the Manhattan headquarters of the Associated Press one evening last week came a flash from Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy at Algiers that made A.P. eyes pop: "DE LUCE MADE TRIP INTO BAL KANS WHICH ARRANGED ITALY. WILL WRITE SERIES STORIES. DE LUCE DESERVES HIGHEST CREDIT." Then came the first De Luce dispatch. The astonishing dateline: "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inside Yugoslavia | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...candidate for Spain's naval academy was a 17-year-old hereditary Admiral of the Indies-Cristóbal Colón, descendant of the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Francisco, heavy-spending shipyard workers have boosted nightclub business 30%. Mixed with the workers are thousands of sailors on leave and soldiers about to embark, all having one last fling. But regular socialite clubgoers are fewer. The fancy Bal Tabarin has dropped pâté de jole gras, crêpes suzettes, etc., from the menu, replaced them with plain English and a hot meat special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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