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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. Last week Luckey hinted strongly that Truman was distressed by the idea of Jimmy Roosevelt running for the office. George Luckey was undoubtedly distressed, too: he had been acting as though he thought George Luckey represented the type of Truman Democrat the state needed. It seemed certain that fur would fly before Luckey gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Jimmy Takes the Dive | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town in Texas a whistle stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: No Mourning for Electro | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

MacArthur thinks he can wipe the smile off little Nozaka's face. This much is certain: the Communists would have far greater cause for mirth if Douglas MacArthur had never come to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Damned Nonsense | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

First, Rogge assumes that merely because certain "investigated" individuals are outstanding in their professions, they are of necessity loyal Americans. This does not mean that these people are not loyal Americans. But--in the case of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, for instance--it is an assumption which Rogge logically does not have to make to prove his point about House Committee improprieties...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

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