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Word: extention (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, hungry scientists in Germany to whom Russia's offer might well appeal. If they went to Russia they would take with them the kind of mass technological know-how, theoretical and practical, from rockets to railways, which only the U.S. and Germany (and, to a lesser extent, Britain) had before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Sensible Advance | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...anticipated or hoped for from the strike must be sufficiently great to compensate for the evils which it is likely to produce. . . . They may not inflict financial harm on those who own the shop or factory-and still less, on the great body of their fellow citizens-to an extent far out of proportion to the advantages they have set as their goal, even though their demands are just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Strike | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...couples, 59% were happy; of the parents of three or more children, 71% were happy. It is clear that happiness increases with the number of children. . . . Most couples who go into the divorce court are childless. No one can escape the conclusion that the divorced population represents to some extent a biologically inferior part of the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vanishing Family | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...some effectively staged ghost fear: Nath's exploration of the dark, wind-lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they are warned off by bullets. When Farmer Robinson's sister (Judith Anderson) is killed, his mind goes to pieces and so, to some extent, does an otherwise good movie. But in the course of his mental crackup, Robinson does explain why the door of the Red House should have stayed shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Approval on Thursday by the Civilian Production Administration of a building cost estimate to the extent of $900,000 removed the final obstacle hindering commencement of operations on the latest addition to the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work on New Library Is Set For Next June | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

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