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Word: endlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life was a round of cheap rooms, skimpy meals, an endless attempt to look glamorous and "sexy." She posed for hundreds of cheesecake pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before that you were determined to stay in Berlin," said a Frankfurt shopkeeper. "When you started these endless supply planes we knew you meant business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Purchase of Freedom | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Hands Across the Ages. In New Delhi, people gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: How to Fill a Vacuum | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Bumper Crop | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...idea of the painting takes shape in his mind, his mood lightens and he may even begin to chat as he slashes away at the canvas. But if things go too swiftly and too well, he worries ("I'm nothing but a bloody, glib-"), and embarks on an endless and exhausting series of changes which may well ruin the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gypsy John | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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