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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lost Horizon | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Big (6 ft., 190 lbs.), fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Laurels & Leverage | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

But in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, there was no cause for complaint except perhaps that hunters got their daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks Away | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

In their tireless search for beauty, millions of U.S. women have tried to improve the looks of their hair by buying and using up millions of "cold-wave" kits. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has been checking on complaints that the home wave preparations* cause skin rashes and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Nod & a Wave | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Dr. Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug for Ulcers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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