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Word: greys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white man meets the challenge which TIME has so ably presented, white Americans, in the words of Toynbee . . . "may perhaps be capable of rekindling the cold grey ashes of Christianity . . . until in their hearts the divine fire glows again. It is thus, perhaps, if at all, that Christianity may conceivably become the living faith of a dying civilization for the second time." For unless the hearts and minds of every one of us have the will to put into action our professions of Christianity and democracy, we will have NO world instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...last week Professor Yasumaro Shimojo walked into a large, dirty classroom at Nippon University in Tokyo. Grey old Shimojo had just been named Education Minister in Premier Shigeru Yoshida's precarious new cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: I Shall Return | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...pair of grey pin stripe trousers was the first item auctioned off by Carol Fraser '50 yesterday during a lost and found sale held in Agassiz House. A Radcliffe janitor snapped up this first offering for 50 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Haberdasher | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

Where was the steel going? After investigating the problem for nine months, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works gave part of the answer last week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher -- and Scarcer | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Boys from Hanover were in town over the weekend. They walked off with a football game and parts of a goal post. They left behind them a grey, dismal Cambridge, splashing sadly in the Sunday morning rain...

Author: By Burt Glinn, | Title: Fireworks Sputter but Rarely Explode in Damp Weekend | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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