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Word: ever (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.O.P. will never win by becoming imitation New Dealers, but whether it ever wins is a minor consideration. What is important is that the nation have a genuine opposition party, a conscientious, hard-slugging, conservative party whose leaders are not afraid to explain to the voters the very real dangers to democracy that the so-called "liberal" policies are breeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...period immediately following November 2, much talk centered upon the five--elections-- wrong American press, which had all but unanimously pressed for the losing Republican candidate and, to cap the atrocity, had completely mistaken the public pulsebeat in the process. By new, how-ever, most newspapers have managed to submerge the issue and settle down to the merry business of waving an admonishing finger in the direction of the Truman Administration...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody can live happily ever after in a world torn by peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counter-Offensive | 2/1/1949 | See Source »

Albert Jay Nock was a mysterious man. Not that he ever seemed to be one-the literary public knew him as an editor (the highbrowed, low circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Commentator | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...writers have ever earned the love of their people as has this man whose real name was Samuel Rabinowitz, and who chose to call himself Sholom Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Country | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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