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Word: domain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could restrain Razvi and his fellow Moslem fanatics; but it is hard to tell what the Nizam will do next. Not much was known about the man upon whom the fate of India might depend. The 62-year-old Nizam has never traveled out of India, has left his domain only twice in the past 15 years-once to Delhi and once to Calcutta. Now he ventures out of his palace only on two occasions: each afternoon at 4:20 he visits his mother's tomb, every Friday he prays at a public mosque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HYDERABAD: The Holdout | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Picture, That Lady in Ermine, presents Betty as an Italian countess (she is also an ancestress who conies down from her portrait on the castle wall-but no matter, it is only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...peasants on the fringes of Markos' domain were so friendly. Some were Communist supporters. Others just could not believe that the Greek army was there to stay. A peasant woman remarked that the wheatfields had been planted by Markos' men. "They said they'd be back to harvest it." But this time the Greek army was confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Coronet | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...ambitions (which were great even then) in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire. While he charmed the Turks, who considered him an outstanding member of Parliament, he was also active in the secret anti-Turkish societies which fostered Arab nationalism. His chief aim: to increase the power and domain of the Hashimites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reluctant Dragon | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Matthiessen offered admission that Wallace will not win but said that "to keep issues alive you must keep them in the public domain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Party Gets Raspberry, Cheers | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

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