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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a deep gulf between communistic theory and practice: the envisioned ideal state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Since the lights went on in the glassed-in case Monday, crowds four and five deep have jammed the alcove in Widener. "We were thinking of selling tickets," said one library official jokingly. Reaction to the model is somewhat standardized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Exhibits Model of University '36 | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

William C. Murphy 2L, secretary of the Union, discredited reports connecting the internal upsets with Union food and noted that, according to custom, samples of the meal had been preserved in a deep freeze unit for possible testing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Blame Union Beans for Stomach Trouble | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Little Stove | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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