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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cantonese winked, snickered and doubled their prices as they proudly retorted that crocodiles and elephants that once flourished in Kwangtung promptly left after the arrival of the Cantonese. At week's end, most northerners agreed that the crocodiles and elephants showed good sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...village of Nakago, a bluff old man with a Dewey mustache said: "The food is not good now-but still people do not die off. Will the peace conference let Japanese migrate abroad? As things stand now, there seems nothing to do but go somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Close to Russia. "We are afraid of another war," the mayor cut in. "Japan needed Manchuria, but it was not good to get so close to Russia. Now the Russians seem to be coming closer to us. We want peace always and we Japanese will try to change the hearts of our officials so that all Japan will work for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...better, if less startling, definition than the one from a man who, asked if he had voted, said that he had but his candidate had lost. "What's the good of democracy," he asked, "if the man you vote for doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, paid his first state visit to Washington last week. Actually, despite his striped pants, stiff collar and courtly manners, he was just like an old friend dropping in for a chat. There was no state dinner: Good Neighbor St. Laurent was entertained at a stag luncheon in Blair House with 14 other guests-mostly top-drawer U.S. officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Matters of Moment | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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