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Word: em (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, he is more interested in what happens to the handful who survive to wander over the bare world like ants in the hand of God. Two of the survivors, Ish and Em, meet and begin as bravely as Adam & Eve to repopulate the world. Soon others join them, and by the time Author Stewart leaves The Tribe, it seems to have grown to a community of several hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Five Yard and Cambridge policemen had their hands full yesterday controlling the onlookers--sometimes over 500 strong. "Way back" shouts of Lieut. Matthew Tooey usually evoked a little more than "push 'em back" chant from the flocking spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Starts Shooting Crime Movie | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

When Robert G. Albion graduated from Bowdoin in 1918, he had to choose between the newspaper business or a stretch at graduate work in history. "I took a look at the old boys in the city room, compared 'em with the professors mellowing at Bowdoin, and off I went to Harvard...

Author: By Paul W. Mandol, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

...Flanked by burly Hawaiian longshoremen and buried up to his pencil-sharp nose in flowery leis, Harry Bridges stood smiling on a ramp at Honolulu Airport one morning last week. "Well, Harry," said a dockworker, "we'll expect you back in 1951. We'll really give 'em hell then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Here It Is | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have never had an orchid. They all want 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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