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Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainline highways. But the human element is still the same. One night last week Driver Peter Motola blundered on to the wrong approach to the Union Turnpike in Queens, N.Y., drove into the wrong oneway lane on the turnpike. Result: a head-on crash (see cut). The toll: six dead; five injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...seconds later the plane leveled out and the warm afternoon air shuddered with the explosion of bombs. In the screaming confusion of blood-spattered bodies and burning buses, 41 lay dead or dying, 65 wounded. From then on the raids were no joking matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: On the Move | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Defenders opened fire with machine guns. Several more sheep exploded. When it was all over, 70 sheep and 26 Communists in sheep's clothing lay dead or wounded. Some still carried bundles of explosives for breaching the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Black Sheep | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

What is needed on the question of tutorial is, first, less argument and more cooperation and compromise, and, second, more thought about the problem at the center of the University and less option for the individual departments. Tutorial is dying--in fact, is as close to dead as is imaginable--because it became financially impractical in its original form. In the financial rush to get away from it, compromise has been almost negligible, and it is this compromise which might save the elements of tutorial which make it still the only sound way to unify education in a lecture system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...despairing." But Veblen himself had had enough of public life. Nominated for the presidency of the American Economic Association, he coldly rejected it, remarking: "They didn't offer it to me when I needed it." He withdrew to a mountain cabin in California, and in 1929 the dead ashes of his once lively body were scattered in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conspicuous Radicalism | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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