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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The President good-naturedly took the hint and held a press conference the next day under a cork tree-his first since the exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Play & Work | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Toward the very end, the nature of the miracle is revealed. It turns out to have been a talking horse with a very beautiful and exalted message for the townspeople. The audience neither hears the horse nor sees him; for them, there is only an intense white light above his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Deliberately Dull? Journalist Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Each Its Own | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

The Source of Deformity. Farther along on his tour, Poole hears the "Satanic Science Practitioner" piping a Belialic catechism to a group of students.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & the Deep Blue Huxley | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

On the screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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