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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Tennessee's Boss Crump, whose domain shrank last election from the whole state to just the city of Memphis (and surrounding Shelby County), decided that there would be no harm now in admitting his age: 75. Never bothered to set folks right before, he told reporters, "because you'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hands Across the Sea | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

"All I knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bullpen Victory | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

This autumn French newspapers and educators bitterly complained about the bac and the old-fashioned competitive system it stands for. First set up in 1808, the exams have long been attacked by progressives as a "savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Busy with TV rehearsals and with plans to play the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Wynn saw but one roadblock on his upward path. "The only trouble with television," he said thoughtfully, "is that you can be wonderful this week and just as bad the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Something Old, Something New | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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