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Word: ghosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubbed his well-polished boot when he stepped outside his own field of fire. Their books have only this in common: each contains a fairly detailed operations report that historians and experts, armchair and professional, will find required reading. Beyond that, Admiral Halsey's Story is a routine, ghost-spun autobiography of a forthright, successful, but essentially uninteresting naval man. War As I Knew It is the sometimes irritating but always readable book of a soldier with curiosity and imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The General and the Admiral | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Like a Butter Pat. By morning, when the danger began to abate, Bar Harbor was a ghost town, surrounded by hot and smoking ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Lovely Time of Year | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...opening their ghost school a month each year, the Mount Washington school board avoids paying the bills for the three local pupils at Hillsdale. But Mount Washington's parents are up in arms: they say they are paying twice for their children's schooling. Their case is pretty hopeless: the majority of Mount Washington's taxpayers have no children in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ghost School | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...wily Harry Stuhidreher, using all the mental acumen he acquired quarterbacking the "Four Horsemen" under Knute Rockne, had his second eleven in there the entire third quarter. When the fourth period saw the return of the Badger regulars, tired old Eli gave up the ghost...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...everyday matter for William Blake to converse with the ghost of a flea or Milton's apparition, and his works are clearly those of a man who saw "A world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower." The subject matter of most of the paintings in the present exhibit, the Book of Job and the Divine Comedy, completely suit the artist's mystical nature; only such a man could tear from the delicate medium of watercolors all the horror and ecstasy of Job's sufferings and Dante's revelation...

Author: By N. S. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/17/1947 | See Source »

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