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Word: generalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World War I, and Baseball Immortal Christy Mathewson, ex-'02, who was a football hero at Bucknell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bucknell's Ninth | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: General Brehon Somervell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In the course of ransacking D.P. camps in occupied Germany, he meets not only Hildegard but a sinister, disguised SS general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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