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Word: headful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rude awakening. Harry Truman was bouncing up & down on his bed, beaming happily. He told Ross-who had never really believed that his boss had a chance of election-that it was coming out just as he had always said it would. Harry Truman threw back his head and laughed and laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Country Boy's Faith | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...that world starvation is not around the corner. Man can make a mess of his food supply, as he can of anything else. He does not have to, however. The land is there, the hands to work it are there, the brains are there. If he uses his head he can eat hearty-indefinitely. He might even produce enough to help out Dr. Vogt's friends, the woodland caribou, the Florida manatee, the wolverine and the bighorn sheep. Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Himmler." Other Germans were important to the Russian plans. One was Kurt Fischer, appointed head of the department of the interior of the central administrative agency of the Soviet zone last July. In his 503, Fischer seems to most Germans to have the appearance of a typical Biedermann (Babbitt): neatly dressed, round-faced, with greying, slightly wavy hair. But Fischer was a veteran of the Communist Spartacist League, which ruled Berlin for ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Shadow Army | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

After watching New York by traditional methods, cars should head for the Holland Tunnel and follow U. S. Route 1 over the Pulaski Skyway and down through Elizabeth. South of New Brungwick, a short road cuts off to Princeton. There are signs all along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Find Princeton, N. J. In Only Five Simple Lessons | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...game itself one to achieve this end. Though Princeton was clearly the superior team, and was never headed, in allegedly fifth down Tiger field goal created an element of discussion. And when three of Harvard's best players sustained injuries, one from a blow on the head, the effect was hardly to restrain the animosity which the opposing stands felt for each other...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lampoon Nearly Ended Tiger Rivalry | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

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