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Word: ernest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done for Britain; the U.S. press reminded itself of the harsh fact that, if Britain went down in economic distress, dragging the great sterling bloc of nations with her, the U.S. economy would be sorely shaken, the free world's defenses critically weakened. Dean Acheson in Washington and Ernest Bevin in London argued that the need to maintain U.S.-British unity must influence economic decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Gannett asked: "Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation? Main Street doesn't read like a crusading book today. Maybe it never was as much'a crusading book as some of its readers assumed." Francis Hackett found Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been made "trite" by time and another war. Hackett's conclusion, which would call many Hemingway fans to arms: "[This] lyrical novel, for all its excellences, shows how sterile the primitive protest really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Looking Backward | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...details of Joe's technical secrets are locked in the heads of Producer Merian C. Cooper and Director Ernest B. Schoedsack, who also created the mighty Kong. Since it cost $1,800,000 to piece the secrets together in a single film, they are likely to stay there for some time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...trails were cut when Sherwood Anderson rebelled against the O. Henry plot formula, when Theodore Dreiser discarded the genteel tradition, and when Ernest Hemingway sharpened and toughened the language. But the trails that were fresh and even perilous a few decades ago are now dusty and routine, and most of the writers in Miss Foley's collection are still stumbling along them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Crop | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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