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Word: halfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...myriad stop-lights installed to enable bloodless crossings at a half-dozen new cross-walks will remain. City and state engineers are continuing experiments to determine the best combinations and directions for the lights. Many of the flashing red and yellow markers have recently been changed to arrows, as a result of their investigations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Traffic Abandoned; Square Returns to Normal | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...second half of Bush's thesis is more acceptable. His belief that science in a democracy is necessarily more creative than that in a totalitarian state is pretty suspect--at the end of the war Nazi scientist were well ahead of the Allies in the development of aircraft, guided missiles, tanks, and submarines, among other things. But his does not mean that we must be unprepared...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Science and Civilization | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

This is no definitive work; the author makes no pretenses to such an object. But it is an interesting job in the man who one day this week will decide whether half a million coal miners have presents for their kids on Christmas. A man with that kind of power deserves a vivid biography, which is just what Mr. Alinsky has given...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: 'Something of a Man' | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Although the team led at half-time by a score of 6 to 4, it bowed before a Tiger offensive in the third chukker when Tucker and Ellis scored twice each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Defeat Polo Team by 1 Point 16-15 | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl, and she is a spoiled brat who turns out all right in the end. Ford has a big sergeant who drinks Irish whiskey and demolishes a half dozen or so of his comrades in a friendly bar-room test of strength--one of the three interior scenes in the whole picture. These scenes, in the best tradition of the Western, have never been done better. This movie is a very particular kind of classic. If you like...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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