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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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* Conspicuous among the guests were Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and Elliott Roosevelt, frequent Truman critics. Conspicuously absent: Henry Wallace. A few hours before dinner time, he had left town for New York, explaining that he was too busy getting ready for his departure this week for Europe.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Politics | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week, Městrović told his story in halting English. For 25 years he had quietly taught his technique to sculpture students who came from all over the world to his school in Zagreb. In 1938 he finished a work close to his heart: his own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man of the Past | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

In 1930 he settled down at Coos Bay, a busy lumber town on Oregon's southern coast, where he began saving for his present big expansion, largely financed by Cleveland Newspaper Broker Smith Davis. Sackett decided that his chain would be "owned by the men who run it, run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Suns & a Star | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Seafood has enough problems to keep biologists busy. A few new items:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Underwater | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Too busy buying up the bogus Newsweek to make an extended statement, the Bow Street aviary nevertheless did manage to take time out between newsstands to declare that "this left us speechless." By last night, however, they were sufficiently recovered to direct their suspicions at the Yale Record.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibismen Meet Match in Yale Record; Phony Newsweek Hits Stands Early | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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