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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While waiting for Johnson, Brazilians had time to appraise their two-year exposure to Bill Pawley. The millionaire go-getter, who often invited 750 guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rowley's Testament | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

He made it pay by branching out, developing an electric shaver, an oxygen regulator for aircraft, a plastic shoe sole. As an Army major, he worked on guided missiles during World War II. At war's end, he set up the H. J. Rand Co. (the initials were reversed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Revolution No. 2 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Requirements of the shooting schedule provided frequent opportunities for the gendarmes to raise a guestioning nightstick, but they stood by in quiet confusion as extras paraded a naked mannekin before the camera. "All part of the script," technicians explained.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Veritas' Film Nears Completion | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

On the intellectual level the play is sound enough. The though that murder and war are the equally unnecessary products of ignorance and dullness, while perhaps not universally satisfactory, is at least acceptable enough to be called sound. But on the dramatic level, "The Survivors" reveals little that could be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

In large sections of the non-Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hero v. Sinner | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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