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Word: barse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some trainmen grumbled that the strike was over-without all demands won. But all over the nation, just as quietly as they had climbed down, men in faded blue overalls now mounted their cabs again. Trainmen went back to work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Forty-Eight Hours | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

One-Man Poll. Patterson, strapping and sloppily dressed, used to roam the metropolis by night, haunting Bowery bars, El stations, cheap movies and the newsstands, casually asking people what they thought of the News and its boss.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

A man who should abstain, but does not want to, should be placed on an alcohol farm, or in a sanitarium or hospital. When an alcoholic's supply is abruptly stopped, sedatives are often necessary to relieve the shakes or jitters. He must learn the importance of eating; carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcoholic Illness | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Five Bars in Helsinki. Freddy himself was only 16 when he committed his first crime against classical music. He and some fellow high-school boys had played their way to Europe on a Cunard liner. Later, in Helsinki, playing at a hotel, they heard that Jean Sibelius would be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky in the Grove | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Freddy Martin does not jazz up the classics; he waters them down, so that they are simple enough for his own treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky in the Grove | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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