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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was new medicine to Paraguayans, who were used to settling differences at home by revolution and abroad by war. In 1865 they took on Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil in a five-year battle royal that ended only because Paraguay's able-bodied male population shrank to 28,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: A Parliament for Warriors | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

The story was compounded by a methematician, not written by a writer. This Hollywood Einstein has taken a man, his wife, and their two daughters, equated them with a young obstetrician, a Frenchman, and a worldly aunt, and triumphantly made it all come out even. The Frenchman and the obstetrician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Soon the situation was well out of hand. Mobs fought with firemen and police (ten cops were injured), hurled bottles and bricks through windows, smashed the ticket booth of Scollay Square's Old Howard burlesque house, turned on a fire hose in a downtown movie theater. Women of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Boston Tea Party | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Gonzalez, now 47, first got his fireworks reputation when, as a young champion of peoples' rights, he played cops & robbers with Dictator Carlos Ibañez' police. Arrested, he begged permission to blow his nose, instead sprinted two blocks to the Radical Club, where fellow members protected him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Charm & Temper | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Crack-Up (RKO Radio) continues Hollywood's current series of easy lessons in psychiatry. For good measure, the picture also offers cops & robbers and a few rudimentary art lectures on the detection of bogus Old Masters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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