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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since 1928, when he came home from Washington to be managing editor, Roy Roberts has been the man to see in Kansas City-to get elected, to build a hospital, to get things into the paper or to keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Roy | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...have had enough religion, religious philosophy and religious psychology. It is time we again found the living God and began to build the theological temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Calvinist Comeback? | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort, but if you're not, it will probably just add up to an awfully long three hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

...atomic age: "It's a race between education and extinction." In recent weeks she had worried about herself, told some friends that she was "done for." But she still dashed about the country to local school meetings, kept four secretaries busy, wangled money, materials and manpower to build more schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Champion | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Snow Is Predicted | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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