Search Details

Word: given (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...major coup for the Government. Mrs. Massing had been barred by the court as a witness in Trial No. 1. For the first time someone other than Whittaker Chambers had given direct testimony that Alger Hiss had been a Communist. This week as big, slow-moving Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy rested his case, the Government seemed on more solid ground than it had been during the original trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Woman with a Past | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store. José's programs were no longer filled with rollicking Mexican airs and passionate love songs. Handsome José, now a greying 54, had long since given up the luxury and adulation of a movie star's life and become a Franciscan monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...reasons are given for this: the Licensing Board has no jurisdiction in Cambridge, and the clientele needs no bouncing. Proprietors of the homes of foam in the Harvard area are unanimous in their opinion of bouncing: unnecessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bouncing a Boston Pastime, Say Square Tavern Keepers | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Then for the main part of the experiment, the students were given a blank answer sheet of the same type used on the College Boards, and asked to fill it out to conform with a sheet secretly filled out by those giving the test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyants Try Perception Tests | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next