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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN UNION: What the Girl Looks Like | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Week | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...matter how fast it grows, quick-stepping, penny-wise Otto Schnering, 57, will keep pace with it. As a boy, he spent his summers on his father's fatrm near Detroit, and hoped to become a farmer too. But after graduation from the University of Chicago, he wanted to get married, so he got a job in a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Candy King Reaches Out | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...last week, new-style comic books with such come-on titles as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Teen-Age Romances and Young Love were outselling all others, even the blood & thunder variety. The sexy, slick-covered romance-mongers -souped-up soap operas in new wrappers-were rolling off the presses as fast as publishers could think up new names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love on a Dime | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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