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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I remember thee in time to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with delight...The dreary deposits of 2,000 years filled with inhumanity, intolerance and filth lie in your evil-smelling alleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Second Most Important | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam, the mother of Irium. As Pocahontas ("better-known by her Indian name, Alka-Seltzer"), Ethel Merman tomahawked a marauding redskin who was stalking Captain John Smith. "Like George Washington, I cannot tell-um lie," she cried triumphantly. "I chop down Cherokee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Female of the Species | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students. "The cheapest is cremation (50 francs)," he advised. "I do not want to lie in Swedish soil, for it is damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...pursuit of private beliefs, and the difficult measurements of loyalty, G-man Hoover looks like a man who longs for the simple combat of gangster days, when a criminal could sometimes be flushed out into the open and caught with a gun in his hand, instead of a lie on his tongue. But, conscientious cop and efficient public servant that he is, J. Edgar Hoover regards his new mission, and the attacks he receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford to be too particular about the information he collects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...without ixbut, but did well with it; 35% who could nurse only a little showed marked improvement with ixbut. The 15% who got no benefit were mostly nervous types. But Serrano found the same proportion of failures among goats which, he insists, were not nervous. Animals also give the lie to scoffers who say that the effect of ixbut is psychosomatic. Dairymen report that ixbut doubles the milk production of their cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Milkweed | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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