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Word: beaconed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ragtime Hooligans | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Physicists' Beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life of the mind can have no meaning, and without which the very notion of education would be a rather odd one. When, if ever, Einstein shall have ceased to be a beacon to physicists, physics will have ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: And the Governors, Too | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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