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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that Franklin Roosevelt made concessions to Russia at Yalta is well known. Last week in Collier's, Roosevelt's old and loyal friend, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood,* threw some light on the method and manner in which those concessions were made-particularly the deal made at the expense of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: We Believed in Our Hearts | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...every other Hollander, the mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Farewell--with Pink Begonias | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Rope (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The story: two young men, fresh out of college, strangle a young friend-just for the thrill -and hide the body in a chest.To sharpen their excitement and selfesteem, they serve a buffet supper, off the murder chest, to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), sweetheart (Joan Chandler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas Dick) and a beloved former teacher (James Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Rising Sun is the third volume in Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpleasant Months | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Safety First. In Honolulu, Airport Manager William Holloway rushed out to the auto obstructing Runway 4, learned that Hamai Shizuo had chosen the field as just the place to teach his friend to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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