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Word: expressible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stokowski hired him as a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black & White Aida | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...overseas editions, are overwhelmed with requests for copies of a book called How To Do Business Under the Marshall Plan. The roster of names signed to these letters could serve as a Who's Who of American business, big and small, and the sentiments they express show a genuine desire on the part of private industry to participate wholeheartedly in the Marshall Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

President Conant went on to express the opinion that these colleges should have the right to give a special bachelor's degree--"that badge of respectability for most Americans." A two-year degree of bachelor of general studies (B.G.S.) night well represent the final degree for a majority of college students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Junior Colleges Suggested by Conant | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Late one night last January an inspector tailed the "doctor" to an express office and watched him address a package to a Louisiana doctor. When opened, it proved to contain abortion paste ($5 a tube, enough for three perilous abortions). An FDA man followed the package to its destination and seized it as evidence. Later, another package was trailed through the mails to Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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