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Word: facings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Two Men | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...appointed day at 5:30 p.m. Velio Spano, in a natty brown double-breasted suit, crossed the little piazza in front of the church and entered the hall. A minute later Father Lombardi arrived, his face muffled in a black shawl. The contestants smilingly shook hands and took their seats behind a red table on the theater's stage. In the audience their supporters, divided by the middle aisle, sat quietly on seats marked with their names in big letters. As the seconds checked their watches, Father Lombardi murmured to Spano: "When Communism falls-as I'm sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God on Trial | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...woman with the lovely face is screaming. Her dark eyes are luminous with horror. She seems to be hanging perilously to the very edge of a cliff, while far below is a dizzying view of the pounding ocean. Somebody is trying to push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...another instance, the Council failed to question Bender's assertion that a food investigation would be a slap in the face of Dining Hall authorities. Is the central purpose of the Dining Hall department to keep its hierarchy happy--or to serve the best possible food to undergraduates? And no one brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Food Problem III: | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

...soon as the first fire engine pulled to a stop on the corner and the smokefighters opened water valves, a gush of muddy water immediately smacked three students in the face. Someone had forgotten to attach the hose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Wrestle Tiny Blaze In Chimney as Mob Exults | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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