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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At first comparatively unknown to undergraduates at large and, as he admits, by no means certain of his ability to cope with the busy job of "doaning", Dean Hanford has been able, from his position as middleman between students and Faculty, to strengthen "respect for scholarship" in the former and...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgls, | Title: Dean Hanford Resigns This Month After Two Decades of Promoting Respect for Learning | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

On any night last week at half a dozen or more busy street corners in London, a passer-by could stop and hear an old-fashioned soapbox speech on politics. It was a new fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Right in the Pink | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

The 20 families that make up the year-round population of Peggy's Cove were busy getting ready for summer. Every spare room was reserved, even tenting space was at a premium. Painters, poets, writers, photographers and just plain admirers of rugged beauty were about to move in.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: No Jukebox | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Old Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sweet Corn at Glen Island | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

The Busy Heart

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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