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Word: barse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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A group of former guerrillas tore down a steel tube scaffolding. They broke it up, then distributed the bars to demonstrators, who brandished them defiantly. The paraders were excited by their leaders, who made angry speeches against the government and the "murderer," Jules Moch, Socialist Minister of the Interior and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Q.E.D. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Ernestine McCurry, 72, tried hard but failed to prove to police that she was sober, by 1) standing on her head, 2) doing a fast tap-dance routine, 3) climbing her cell bars, hand-over-hand, to the ceiling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

At St. Louis' gloomy, cavernous Union Station, 10,000 people pushed and shouted for a look at him, but many were blocked in the concourse by glass doors. Through a microphone on the rear platform, Harry Truman shouted: "Let the people behind those bars get in if they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Most Wonderful Thing | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Electric trains, scarce in some cities last year, are back in abundance everywhere with such refinements as Gilbert's talking station (it announces arrivals & departures) and Lionel's scale models of Santa Fe and New York Central diesel trains. Trains will get lively competition from a new type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Babes in Toyland | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The Paris meter bar has served the world well, but there are two things wrong with it. Modern techniques of measurement make the fine engraved lines on the bar seem coarse and irregular. Then too, many scientists feel that the metric system should not be based on an arbitrary length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pilgrimage | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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