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Word: fall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blandinqs Builds His Dream House. Gary Grant and Myrna Loy fall among contractors (TiME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Cinema, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Last fall Eden, who wears his hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nature Boy from Brooklyn | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...increase is too much for the fans to handle, in poorly ventilated mines, the gas may accumulate until it forms an explosive mixture. He thinks that mine operators should take careful note of the weather and warn their miners to be especially careful when the pressure begins to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Explosion Weather | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...rush to get out of Hollywood? There are three reasons: 1) moviegoers (and good moviemakers) are showing revived interest in films shot in real settings; 2) labor and production costs fall off sharply outside the U.S. (some German extras work for as little as two cigarettes a day); 3) in Britain and on the Continent, one of the best ways for U.S. film companies to use their blocked dollar earnings is to shoot movies there, then ship them back to the U.S. for release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...even the well-sheltered pygmies go up in the explosion, the bereft earth may have to fall back on the descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Us, The Insects? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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