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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Low Bow | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist and one of her best, Henry Green, made his American bow with Loving. A dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope Muntz's care fully researched but woodenly written The Golden Warrior, the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Harry Darby was not interested in staying a Senator long. "I have never been a candidate for elective office," he explained, "and this appointment doesn't change my mind on that." At the end of next year, when his term ends, Senator Darby will bow out and let Governor Carlson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Fill-In | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Benny Jacobson, proprietor of the Gold Coast Valeteria, revealed last night that he had purchased the building at the corner of Mt. Auburn, Plympton, and Bow Streets from the trustees of the Harvard Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Building Is Sold by Trustees to Benny Jacobson | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...reasonably expect in the future. He describes how light, mobile, powerful weapons such as recoilless guns have swung the advantage in land warfare back to the defense; how the co-ordination of radar net, jet-aircraft, and guided missile should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World War II. The devices...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Science and Civilization | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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