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Word: epical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moves along in constant and successful pursuit of happiness, from high school prom to church wedding to a mortgage-free white frame house, she becomes a nearly epic figure: America's Everywoman. Her great and simple message is: life can be happy and Everywoman can be beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Toronto's Woodbine Park, a brown colt named Epic won Canada's race-of-the-year, the 89-year-old King's Plate (worth $10,000 plus 50 guineas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another $48,700 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians. Filming was to start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quo Vadis, M-G-M? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Detroit, Chicago, and scores of lesser U.S. tracks will also put their best equine feet forward this weekend?as will Toronto's Woodbine Park, where the best of the Canadian racing crop will run for the Sg-year-old, $10,000-and-50-guineas King's Plate (probable favorite: Epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Died. James Truslow Adams,† 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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