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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the bell's first ring, it was panic; by day's end an incredible 16,410,030 shares had been dumped, capping the selling that had wiped out an estimated $25 billion in stock values. Not until 2½ hours after the market's close did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Certain Restlessness | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Miriam (Hebrew for Mary) is a gentle, devout girl whose life has been spent in the peaceful town of Nazareth, feeding the animals, drawing the water for the family, tending the vegetable garden, pressing oil for the lamps, learning how to pound spices. Wild animals are tame in her presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miriam & Yeshua | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

A Long Ride. This, says Asch in effect, is how it might have been. He has borrowed from the Gospels, borrowed from the Apocrypha, borrowed from the traditions of Jewish life. His central purpose has been to make Christians and Jews realize what they have in common: "It has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miriam & Yeshua | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

During the next 15 years, in half a dozen states, the James gang robbed scores of banks and trains, killed ruthlessly, and often for no reason at all. Most of the killings were committed at close range, for Jesse's marksmanship was "miserable." Readers who believe that Missouri'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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