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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Breaking Point. In London, Edward Finney called the Croydon police station to announce: "I just threw four bricks through the windows of the Inland Revenue Office. I am fed up with paying income tax."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

One summer day in 1539 a young friar named Marcos eased himself into a barber's chair in Mexico City, unburdened himself of the biggest piece of news his barber had heard all summer. As almost everybody in Mexico City knew, Fray Marcos de Niza had just returned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Glittering Cibola. Coronado, the second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Kit: Some people have to work very hard for a tear. Others can have them just for the thinking.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

During his 54 years of life, Author Hearn seldom lacked inspiration of one sort or another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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