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Word: builded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspense begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...usual during reading period, there has been an increase in the number of bookhogs who hide hard-to-get volumes on obscure shelves or build up private stacks in booths about the building. The library hopes to curb them by frequent checks of shelves and reading rooms, McNiff said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Crime Rate Is Low; Summer Shutdown Likely | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...first time a Southern school board had ever been fined for discrimination. It might not be the last. Since the Gloucester case began, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed similar charges against four other Virginia counties. One N.A.A.C.P. victory: King George County has voted to build a new $150,000 Negro school by next September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Non-Performance | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin Pays | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago, Yale Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr and New York University Gynecologist Louis Langman began to experiment with electrical tests for cancer. They had Yale Physicist Cecil T. Lane build a special microvoltmeter, which measures electrical potentials in microvolts (one-millionth of a volt). Last week, Researchers Burr and Langman announced preliminary results in diagnosing* cancer of the female genital tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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