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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later he went into the office of his old friend, Les Biffle, the Secretary of the Senate. He shook hands with two amazed secretaries and dashed off another memo: "Les: I wish you were here. I tried to see the VP. He was gone. Now you're out. What do I do? H.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel foundry-until one day he received his reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna's Elwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rabbit with a Mission | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Messner was in Memorial Hall on the afternoon of March 25, waiting for a rehearsal of "Corialanus" to begin, when he noticed that an examination was being administered. He saw a friend, sat down next to him, and asked, "What's the name of this course...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...friend told him that the course was Social Relations 114 (which is Professor Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn's "Anthropology and Modern Life"), and buttressed with this fact, Messner proceeded to write his C-plus paper...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

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