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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yards below, "so that if I should go into the water, I would not be entangled in the gear." The moon was full by then and "traveling swiftly on the very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer to his perch, Joseph dumped the last of his sand ballast and busied himself cutting up his trail rope to throw that out piece by piece. Soon after he heard the cries of sea gulls and looked down to see the lights of beachside restaurants and hotels. A woman was walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Fair Jury." The Communist protest was serious enough to give pause to trial-worn Judge Harold R. Medina. He recessed court for a day to consider the matter. Closer study, however, showed that Carol's diary was not the earth-shaking thing it purported to be. While Janney did complain often that he was tired of testimony about Marxism-Leninism, he added once: "I guess I'd be tired of hearing capitalist theory if they were talking about it . . ." Another time he said: "We have a fair jury . . . they won't be swayed or prejudiced by personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Juror, a Girl, a Diary | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...hunter knows at an early stage approximately where the tree is. To get a better fix, he moves his box, one or more times, closer to the supposed location. Usually, traffic on the beeline gets thicker & thicker as he nears the hive tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Like Honey? | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Frugal City. The Communist plan fell into several stages. Decentralization would not only move out "nonproducers" but shift factories to the interior, where they would be closer to food, raw materials and coal. What remained of Shanghai would be turned "inward," i.e., weaned away from dependence upon foreign trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ideal City | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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