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Word: barringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While running the House Un-American Activities Committee, New Jersey's red-faced J. Parnell Thomas was frustrated by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which says: "No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Thomas unmercifully badgered many witnesses who fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Thomas in Reverse | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Oil Well. At the peak of the summer driving season, the gasoline shortage feared by many oilmen had failed to show itself. Said Jersey Standard's Economist Courtney C. Brown: barring "unforeseeable trouble," prospects were good for continued adequate supplies of both gasoline and fuel oil.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

The Biennial has been a going concern since 1895, though Mussolini cramped its style by barring such "decadents" as Picasso. Last week there was a whole section devoted just to Picasso. Even Mussolini had not been able to bar Picasso's influence; whatever the newest school of Italian painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Bottles | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Ghosts of the '20s. Huston and Co-Writer Richard Brooks have updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Last week medical opinion hinted that, barring tumbles, the bathtub may be the safest place for summer bathing:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yes, My Darling Daughter | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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