Word: ills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yams & Couplings. There were even indications and promises of a good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber...
...decision last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Champaign, Ill. school board had violated the Constitution when it permitted religious instruction during school hours and on school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). Champaign thereupon closed down its formal religious program; churchmen and educators waited to see how other communities would react. Last week, a survey by the National Education Association gave the first comprehensive check...
Nights Off. Tough as they were, Mooney and Bird soon found that Skid Row was tougher. One time Mooney got violently ill having a sociable drink of beer and wine, and had to quit for the day. After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up, slipped home of nights to their own beds...
...will probably form a government next month in coalition with the Free Democrats; whether the Socialists would enter the coalition remained doubtful. As he viewed his victory Adenauer might feel some discomfort in the fact that just 30 years ago Germany launched another hopeful democratic experiment in the ill-fated Weimar Republic. U.S. occupation officers, pleased by the election's outcome, wished Adenauer luck; he would need...
...grouse, for whom this is a day of some importance, must view with curiosity not unmixed with satisfaction the progressive weakening of the forces which his enemy is able to put into the field . . . Perched on the crumbling parapet of an ill-drained butt [a dugout for grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most...