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Word: frantically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days, many of them were. Both sides had yielded a little; wage talks were begun. A measure of quiet returned to the frantic halls of the haute couture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Popular Strike | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with grief, and my mortal clay is stuffed for the National Museum at Washington, it will be the veritable end of the noble and lovely creature once answering to the name of Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unregenerate Iconoclast | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

They are obviously the work of a dead race-the people who thought Los Angeles was going to be a Cleveland with orange trees. After four frantic years of war and four wild years of peacetime boom, it is plain that Los Angeles will never be like anything else on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, Decca recorded a frantic number by Negro Bandleader Buddy Johnson called Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? All 3,000 copies were sent up to Harlem. They sold out in a little more time than it takes for a home run to clear the wall at Ebbets Field. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Slugging Hard | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Dreamy Joe. When Mary Jane needs a nightie, Hope flings her a sodden, outsized sweatshirt; when she is sleepy, he sings her a lullaby improvised from a handy racing sheet. When she lies desperately ill in a hospital, Hope smuggles Dreamy Joe in to see her. Blocked by a frantic nurse, he puts a confidential finger to his lips. "It's my brother," he whispers. "Thinks he's a horse. Sshh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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