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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Triumph in the West concludes Author Bryant's rationalization and happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

There is no doubt that Alanbrooke was an able old professional who saw service from Southern Ireland through India to France (in 1914 and 1939) and carried on effectively in one of the most demanding jobs of World War II. There is also no doubt that some smallness in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Lovers in the Sunset. The prophet came to earth on June 3, 1881, in Liberty, Mo., the son of an ordained minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Already convinced that "the most important thing of all is salesmanship," Eaton rushed right home and set down The Builder's Creed: "I believe in a happy Eternal Life ... in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me, [in] an immense Endowment Care Fund ... to care for and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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