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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since bubonic plague, the fearsome "Black Death" of the Middle Ages, reached the West Coast from China in 1900, U.S. health officials have waged ceaseless war against it. In the century's first quarter, the U.S. had 483 cases, 60% of them fatal. Then U.S. preventive measures (primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rustic Menace | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

On last week's form, the national women's singles at Forest Hills (which start late this month) no longer looked like a pre-ordained duel between Brough and Du Pont. Doris Hart had a good chance to win. The others' chances were slimmer, but any one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heiresses Apparent | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Everyone knows who wins a race between a hare and a tortoise, but who wins a race between two tortoises? Answer: the tortoise with the smarter jockey.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Two Tortoises | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Secretary Acheson mended his diplomatic manners. Said he: "Mr. White's question was whether ... I was following [the Duchess'] admonition, and whether I intend to continue to follow it in the future. The implication was that he hoped to God that was not the case. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Beat Him When He Sneezes | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

It was not easy. The program notes warned that "the title 'symphony' can only be broadly intended." There was little pure instrumental writing: the "symphony" was more a song cycle of 14 poems, from Spenser and Milton to W. H. Auden, to be sung by soloists and choruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Week | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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