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Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coolidge's Vice President and now board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...began shooting again. Daring policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the upper windows. But amid the yells, the crackle of fire, and the throb of pumps the cops could hear Craig screaming: "You want me-come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...lights went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Biology Wins. Then one day a Metro photographer walked up to Elizabeth and said: "I thought you'd like to know that the boys have voted you the most beautiful woman they have ever photographed." "Mother!" gasped Elizabeth, "did you hear what he said? He called me a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...original love comic, a spoiled deb learns that not all her father's money can buy the ideals and dreams of a starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love on a Dime | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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