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Word: browne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great march was on. All over Italy, but mostly on the brown, exhausted earth of Calabria and Sicily, thousands of peasants were taking by force what they wanted most in life-land. Swinging picks and axes, they invaded the big estates and began to work the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I didn't know anything about copyright in those days," says W.P., "so I just printed in each of the books 'copyright applied for.' " Then, he began selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Beneath the rain trees the shade was cool. Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual. In this peaceful setting, on the campus of a Presbyterian girls' school in Bangkok, Siam, 98 churchmen from 15 countries assembled last week to talk over a situation almost as dangerous and difficult as the Christians faced in the days of the catacombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis in the East | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Brown Daily Herald reported that undergraduates had already left for the holidays, but they acclaimed the idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Girls Jump at Shower-Sharing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...varsity rifile team will fire a postal match against Brown, Dartmouth, Illinois Tech., Norwich, Rutgers, and Washington University today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Squad Will Fire Against Six Opponents | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

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