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Word: familiarly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Samovar to Tula | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...FOOTNOTE*-Another of Doc Weaver's maneuvers for luck has been familiar to Cardinals over a span of 22 years. It is the "double whammy," a ceremonial manipulation of the hands which is supposed to bring misfortune to opposing teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Moscow note cited specifics which would seem familiar to many a Russian citizen who never left home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Fur Flies | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Revolution of Sorts. At the bottom of the crisis was a by now familiar phenomenon-the yawning "dollar gap," i.e., the fact that Britain, like most of the rest of the world, spends more dollars than it earns in the U.S. The British have tried to meet the situation by more production, increased exports, by cutting dollar expenditures, and rigging bilateral trade deals with nondollar countries. The chief trouble (in U.S. eyes) is that the British are poor salesmen, do not adapt their products to what is wanted in the U.S. and have prices which are far too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Hard Hearts, Hard Facts | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Communist Spy Courier Elizabeth Bentley got a job in Chicago's Mundelein College, teaching a familiar subject: political science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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