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Word: georgias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proposal. In a final maneuver to harass Republicans, Georgia's Russell slyly proposed that the president pro tempore of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg, be placed in front of Speaker Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeyes at Wildwood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Good or bad, the bill posed a number of prime questions. Though it specifically excepted the state of Georgia's suit against Eastern railroads for discriminatory freight rates (TIME, April 9, 1945), many Senators thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Smell to Heaven? | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

West from Georgia. As the first patron of art in super markets, Charlie Crouch had come a long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Beauty at Work | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Ulcers, there are two new palliatives: 1) a drug called asymatrine, developed by University of Georgia researchers, which generally stops intestinal spasms and pain; and 2) a synthetic, acid-neutralizing resin called Amberlite IR, which seems to have less disagreeable side-effects than alkalis or gels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bad Stomachs | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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