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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years that have just passed, the church leaders have withheld criticism . . . From now on, the responsibility for what happens in Germany will fall more & more on German shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hour to Speak | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Manchester Guardian and a British army veteran, Hall got the idea for his magazine one day when he was strolling along Baker Street. The post office agreed to recognize the mythical 221B as a real address and assign it to the magazine, although Hall and his staff of four have had to set up temporary offices two miles away on Lower Belgrave Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hedunit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...jagged edge was mailed to the Sun-Times. The letter told where to find the gang which had murdered old man Engelhard. Editor Finnegan had the tip checked enough to convince him that it was the jackpot, and hustled it over to the police. Last week detectives arrested four members of a South Side gang, who confessed. Boasted the Sun-Times on Page One: SOMEBODY KNEW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Somebody Knew! | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Schmidts mapping project of the entire sky is expected to take four years. Each little patch will be photographed twice: once with a red filter and once with no filter. On the red plates the hot blue stars will appear to lose some of their brightness; the cool red stars will not. By comparing the two plates, astronomers can get some idea of the temperature of the stars that appear on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Schmidt's-Eye View | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...basis of his radio successes, Lord's new show can probably look forward to a profitable run. But Lord will no longer have anything to do with it. Back in his early days in radio, he sometimes wrote and directed as many as four shows at once. Today, as soon as a show is under way, he leases it to anyone who wants it-a network, advertising agency or another producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: People's Faces | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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