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...Paris reports were true, the Soviet Government was seeking to sell some 50 million bushels of grain abroad; it was probably not because of surplus stocks, but to win friends and influence people. Crop estimates from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland were discouraging. In India and China, famine threatens to linger on at least until November, when the new rice crop will be gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Famine's End? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Change of Heart. In Cleveland, May Dye got married, became May Linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Where the lofty splendors Linger o'er thy nest, And the passioning grandeurs Know some ritual blest Thy magic hours seek altars, which are to God behest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seeing Shelley Plainer | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...This situation has the same advantage that chronic indigestion has over acute indigestion. It is not so dangerous or overwhelming, but its pains will linger longer and provide more opportunity for complaint as well as for alleviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hill Ahead | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...silvery-haired, 46-year-old Nate Twining runs his show from a regular Mussolini of a desk-a huge arc of walnut originally built to the specifications of an Italian general. Under its glass top are maps; above the maps Twining allows nothing but a pen and inkwell to linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Slugging Fifteenth | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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