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Word: brunswicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of project-at once heartwarming, over-organized and unabashedly flamboyant-that Americans dote on. The townspeople of New Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: House-Raising | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of the Soil | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Slave Labor. In Brunswick, Germany, a skier who had accidentally crossed into the Soviet zone reported that he had been held in custody for two days while the Russian soldiers made him give them skiing lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Miss Larelda Land of Larchmont and her classmate, Miss Laura Jean Miller of New Brunswick, N. J., are spending the mid-semester vacation with Miss Land's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Land of 59 West Brookside Drive. They are members of the junior class at Boston University College of Physical Education, Sargent, in Boston, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...Sorrow." Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: My Dear Franklin | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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