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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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To many, such hope seemed perilously near to despair, but it was hope enough for Sir Walter. Last week, while still heading the government's University Grants Committee, he was busy preparing for his new job as first principal of St. Catherine's, a new college "based on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hope or Despair? | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

* Missing from the delegation: Richard Gladstein, who is busy defending two of the 11 Communist leaders on trial in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Who Gives A Damn? | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Within an hour the crowd had swollen to more than 5,000. In the park along bustling Grand Boulevard busy teen-age gangs hunted down Negroes. Others climbed into trucks and circled the park, looking for more targets. One Negro managed to seize a club from his attackers, flailed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Gentleman's Agreement | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

To prove that their anti-Communist actions are as good as their intentions, Indonesian Republicans wound up a busy week (see above) by announcing the execution of Moscow-trained Tan Malaka, the slender, smooth-skinned Indonesian Communist leader who had ungraciously refused to comply with at least four previous Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fifth Obituary | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

At 38, she is a friendly little woman, brimming with vitality. She had to give up tennis while she was reducing. But when she is not on tour, she still roller-skates daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not by the Pound | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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