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Word: happeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely fictional character he is," wrote Sagendorph, "but . . . frankly, Abe Weatherwise is a mainstay around the office." The Almanac had left Abe's forecasts out just once, in 1938: sales flopped, subscribers howled, and it will never happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Abe Weatherwise | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...unusually conceited for an owl, but he can't help thinking that they're not so wise as he is. Why don't they get rid of a few of the duller professors, in keeping with God's Law of course, just to see what would happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scotiaptex Nebulosa | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Most U.S. military observers had thought that the Reds would crush Chiang Kai-shek's forces at Suchow, and take his capital, Nanking, in a matter of days. When this did not happen last week, they could hardly believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Or Cut Bait | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...three current international conferences-on high-frequency radio and plastic surgery1-also watched the comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Signs & Portents | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...some of the white parents. At an open meeting in the high school gym, Mrs. Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke of bad luck that couldn't be helped. [Anyway] your son may be drafted into the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Road, Two Buses | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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