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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The people's representatives were busy last week working for their people, whose needs were great and varied. In the vaulted chambers of the two Houses,* Senators and Representatives rose like corn in a popper, introducing legislation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Hummon got busy. On election day, 675 hastily coached Talmadge backers scratched Old Gene's name off their ballots and wrote in Hummon's. This placed him second to Gene's 143,279. When Old Gene died, Hummon and an ex-Georgia legislator named Roy V. Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Promised Land. In Palestine the diggers were busy too, and some of the things they found were older than the Old Testament. When Joshua led his barbaric Bedouins out of the desert about 1400 B.C., he showed them a promised land almost as old as Egypt, and dotted with ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

These busy "self-duplicating" bodies the scientists called "plasmagenes." There are probably thousands of them, competing actively for nourishment in the cell's body like cattle, prairie dogs and rabbits on an overstocked range. Anything which affects this competition may favor certain plasmagenes above the others, allowing the favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tempest in the Cells | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

The hard-working Bell brothers are still drawing only $25 a week each from their business. But they have $23,000 worth of equipment and enough business on hand to keep them busy for at least six to eight months. They have bought a house and 30 acres of land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Strickland Plan | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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