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Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are obviously the work of a dead race-the people who thought Los Angeles was going to be a Cleveland with orange trees. After four frantic years of war and four wild years of peacetime boom, it is plain that Los Angeles will never be like anything else on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...alarmist reports to the contrary, West Germany is merely going through an essentially healthy process of deflation, not a slump. Would prosperity continue? Says Erhard: "I'm dead sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Cautious Birthday | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Madras, 17-year-old Student Tiru Venkatam sat down to compose a letter to his father: "I failed my examination for the second time," he wrote. "I cannot be of any use to my family. I have decided to end my life." A few hours later, Tiru Venkatam was dead of poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Failure & Death | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Kudzu Kid | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Most of the talk is handled by a young scientist (Ronald Reagan) who is suffering from epilepsy, and a handsome widow (Viveca Lindfors) who is addicted to depressing chats with the spirit of her dead husband. Also involved in the impromptu panel discussions are a garrulous painter (Broderick Crawford) and the widow's younger sister (Osa Massen), who is a heavy tippler with leanings toward nymphomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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