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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets never had any fundamental secret to overcome, Schwinger remarked. "It was just a matter of getting enough technology together. What the Russians had to do is evident--they had to get enough fissionable material together and then lick the detonating problem.' This is apparently what they have done, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schwinger, Back from Atom Parley, Wonders if Soviet Bomb Is Complete | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...notices immediately the industriousness of the people and the thorough job of cleaning up the war damage and done. Rotterdam, greatly devastated, is at the moment building several spiffy functional department stores to fill the grassy vacuum in the middle of the city. The fight against the sea continues; the canals are constantly dredged; and the whole Zuider Zee is being transformed into land...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Social Notes From All Over: Students Abroad | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...hazy film of satire, or at any rate of spoofing, hangs over Yes, M'Lord. But in general Playwright Home seems to have done his best to make everything as inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that it grows tiresome; its scenes are all played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work at a job he likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...York Times Magazine, a publication which has done much for the intellectual expansion of students everywhere, has at last come up with one reason for Harvard's popularity at that woman's college in Northampton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Studious Harvardmen Sought When Smith Didn't Dissipate | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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