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Word: cons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the advent of the "Common Man" has there been a political catchword that con compare in ambiguous anonymity with the nebulous, oft praised, oft maligned, but seldom defined character-the American Liberal. At different times and in different countries the term "liberal" has connected almost every conceivable shade of political opinion. But regardless of its etymological history, the word can be properly applied to a definite American political philosophy. Although it has been bandied about with an appalling lack of discrimination, it is, in this year of our Lord, 1946, a satisfactory label for a certain group of Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

Heath had killed two girls; in the fortnight between the murders, Scotland Yard had let the papers say he was wanted because "he might be able to help in the investigations"-but had forbidden them to print his picture. With the Yard's con-tempt-of-court club no longer over their heads, London dailies last week angrily attacked this police censorship. Their argument: they could have shown Heath's picture to Britain's millions in the two weeks while he was at large-as American papers would certainly have done-and it might well have prevented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Forbidden Picture | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...year's loudest political bombshell burst in the press like a pinwheel exploding in a chicken coop. Scrambling to get hold of the fast-breaking Henry Wallace story, U.S. newspapers galloped off in all directions. Readers were belabored with conflicting pro & con columns, editorials and news stories. They patted Wallace on the back for what he said, kicked him in the pants for saying it, and explored nearly every possible alternative reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scramble | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...routine work, three to four days a week plus Saturday are necessary, and the total amount of time put in is usually not more than the time spent by the players. In the arrangement of afternoon schedules for the candidates, con- sideration is given to afternoon classes and labs...

Author: By Varsity FOOTBALL Co-managers, W. P. Hall, and R. W. Palmer, S | Title: Managers Extoll Joys of Running Football Players | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Mexican painting is as familiar to U.S. art lovers as chile con carne, but the only Canadian art most Americans see are the Indian chiefs and yellow wheat fields on railway posters. This week a handsome book on the subject (Canadian Painters; Oxford University Press, $6.50), appeared to dispel the northern mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Northern Lights | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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