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Word: davids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President seemed genuinely glad to be back. He acted like a man without a worry. He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law. He ate a big turkey dinner, entertained his family with a couple of Chopin Nocturnes on the baby grand. Almost the entire day before election he spent with his fellow Shriners in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Country Boy's Faith | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...expiate this sense of sin Oppenheimer threw himself into the campaign for international atomic regulation. He was appointed to a seven-man board (chairman: David Lilienthal) to suggest U.S. policy on the future of atomic energy. Chalk in hand, Oppie lectured to the nonscientific members for ten days on atomic energy, patiently repeating the lesson whenever some member got lost. Oppenheimer was responsible for much of the writing, and many of the ideas, in the resulting 34,000-word Acheson-Lilienthal Report (TIME, April 8, 1946), which called for an international atomic development authority. Says Lilienthal: "Robert is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...outs for the production's four characters took place yesterday afternoon with Nancy Henneberry '51 and Elaine Tucker '51 copping parts of Inez and Estelle. Garcin will be played by David Baumann '51 and the Valet by Warren Brody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Discloses Cast for First Play; Radio Group Reveals 'No Exit' Roles | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

...Boston medicine, many of whom are nationally recognized authorities. The facilities and treatment to which I have been exposed are of unusually high quality. Harvard men should be very appreciative of the privilege of having such superior men, facilities, and care at their disposal for such a nominal fee. David Roes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hygiene Dept Is Unjustly Attacked | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

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