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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is cancer: war between the body and its rebel cells. But it is not a two, sided civil war, because the body has almost no defenses. The body creates no antibodies against cancer as it does against diphtheria or typhoid. It builds no tissue walls to confine the destructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

A few days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Free State Fiasco | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

From Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Link | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

With 17 others who work in the movies or feel strongly about them. Mankiewicz was sounding off on his favorite subject. The sounding board: LIFE'S Round Table on Hollywood. For 2½ days at San Bernardino, Calif., some 100,000 words flew around the table between scholars, actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supply & Demand | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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