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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study the problem you'll see that in Belgium, as in so many other countries, Moscow would like to destroy us to our foundations. You know their formula: "Divide to master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...adopted children; her husband is an oil company sales representative. She had maintained stubbornly that "sex, as such, has no place in politics." When photographers came to take victory pictures of her, she said: "There'll be no cheesecake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Madame Mayor | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

This leaves exactly four men to uphold Crimson prestige in the 72nd annual, 47-college championships: Sam Felton and John Thorndike in the 16-pound and polevaulters Owen Torrey and Bill Lawrence. Felton, the hammer favorite, thinks he'll have to throw about 185 feet to beat Jim Burnham of Dartmouth and Maine's Marsanskis. Final exams have prevented him from getting into shape, though. His teammate, Thorndike, may take fourth or fifth. Felton may also place in the discus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hopes in IC4A Fizzle with Trimble Out | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...only one affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation Exodus Produces Ghost Town in Cambridge | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Insidious Demands. The housewife is still one of TV's biggest question marks. The problem is whether or not women will find time to sit down and look. Yes, says Mullen: "Women find time to play bridge, to shop, to go to Ladies' Aid. They'll find time for television." Radio can be turned on and ignored; TV insidiously demands full attention. There are some who believe that TV may deliver the final blow to the art of conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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