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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Hell | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Using a minimum of tools, he succeeded. As Jean Cassou, curator of Paris' Musée d'Art Moderne put it, Léger became "the greatest primitive of our modern industrial age." A retrospective show which Cassou's museum was staging last week proved the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fire! | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Then the Wolverines tried hitting the line and found it just as easy to gain there. By winning, 14-7, twice-beaten Michigan took some steam out of unbeaten Minnesota's big drive toward the Western Conference championship and the Rose Bowl.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset Saturday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The Paris critics managed to look unblinkingly shocked. Sample, from Le Figaro: "Stripteases, bizarre morbidities, riots, drunken orgies, poker parties, shriekings, eroticism . . . obscenities and rapes, with just a bit of sexual deviation tossed in for good measure . . . Two years of fighting in line before countless theaters in two hemispheres for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tramway's Progress | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

With odds & ends picked up for his radio repair work, Trusty Bill eventually put together three short-wave transmitters. He hid two of them near his bunk and one in a tiny guardhouse which trusties used. Then, while prison guards were not looking, Moody became an amateur radio "ham." For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hamstrung | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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