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Word: home (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's more, the modernists are leaving their customers no place to hide. Surrounded by transparent walls, the harried dweller in the Neutra home must seek total privacy-if he is old-fashioned enough to desire it-in the confines of his bathroom. HOWARD B. UPTON Tulsa, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...oratory, Congress was beginning to get that old feeling again. Congress had been hard at it for nearly eight months, and by Congress' own rules the Senators and Representatives were supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The House was in a mood to go home. In fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...colleagues, that Congress would have to get over its easygoing ways. "The people hired us to stay here the year round, if necessary. It is not like the good old days, when Congress could meet, spend three weeks on the tariff, pass a few appropriation bills and go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Year-Round Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...older fleet types-left their base at New London, Conn, six weeks ago and headed quietly into the Atlantic. A brief Navy release announced that they were off on a training cruise to Ireland and return. They reached Londonderry all right, on July 29, and left for home-but by an exceedingly circuitous route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voyage to Hammerfest | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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