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Word: bombe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waiting for the Uh-Huh | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Career Conference spotlights will swing to the field of radio tonight when Adolph J. Schneider, who handled the Bikini atom bomb tests for National Broadcasting Company, heads a list of four speakers at 7:45 o'clock in Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NBC's Bikini Reporter Will Share in Career Talks on Radio, Films | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...prisoner, booked as Jacob "Jack" Lewis, was captured last Friday in a raid on a South End hotel. Held for questioning over the weekend, he was arraigned yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to charges of participation in January's smoke-bomb holdup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Prisoner Arraigned in Coop Stickup | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

Back in England, a Conscientious Objectors Tribunal exempted Britten from war service, but he gave concerts in bomb shattered towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Bomb Dropped. Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves, boss of the wartime atomic bomb project and now head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, will become research head of Remington Rand, Inc. when he retires from the Army this month. His new job was broadly described as "including applications of physics, chemistry, electronics, plastics and photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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