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Word: divisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Greatness of Simplicity. Homely, homespun 56-year-old General Omar Bradley was the obvious choice for the job, and a happy one. Omar Bradley had taken the U.S. some time to know. At West Point, where he was a '15 classmate of Eisenhower's, he is remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man for the Job | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Last week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Commander | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

A mild-mannered plugger, Murphy has no hobbies except work, has built his entire reputation within the Burlington system. Before joining the Burlington in 1914, he strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Hand on the Throttle | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Died. Professor Hyman H. Goldsmith, 42, topflight atomic physicist, wartime staffer at Chicago's Manhattan Project (which developed the world's first atomic pile), since 1947 in charge of the Brookhaven (Upton, N.Y.) National Laboratory's information and publication division; by accidental drowning; near Windham, Vt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

In the fourth, with Bolanos still on his feet, his manager jumped into the ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Charity | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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