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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventurers who platted the town on the banks of the Ohio River were certain it would be a seat of great farms, a port for the burgeoning West, and a center of riches and influence. They gave its streets such proud names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Undercover History. Phil Jessup's latest excursion into public life was certain to enter him in his colleagues' history books. Hardly had he settled down in his small paneled office in the State Department before he was making undercover trips to Manhattan to work out the settlement of the Berlin blockade with Russia's Yakov Malik. In the pale-pink glow of hopefulness that followed, he served Acheson as alternate chief of delegation at the Paris four-power conference, proved to himself once again that the Russians had altered their basic strategy not one whit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Professorr Is Out | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...That Enough?" Two days before Louella broke the news (and then burst into tears because stern journalistic duty had driven her to it), the Italian newspaper Il Tempo had noted that Ingrid was "knitting little things" and "rose with a certain difficulty from her seat." And it was no secret in Rome that a tall Sicilian physician had examined Ingrid and then blabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Act of God | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...loyalty oath, which the Council has been investigating for four weeks, will be in the form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Opposed to Discrimination, Votes to Act Against NROTC Oath | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Volume V (Guadalcanal) of Harvard Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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