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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what you're waiting for, but if Stalin hears of this, he'll beat you to it. I'd like to sic some Dutch sculptors onto it but it really is a job for Americans. Wake up, Yanks, get wise to yourselves, use your Common Sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: History & a Legacy | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

After considering the proposition for the last three weeks, Davis, who graduates this June, has still not definitely decided whether or not to accept. "I don't think pro-football is the career for me," was his reaction yesterday, "and I doubt very much that I'll become a Yank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Yanks Offer Davis Contract To Play Pro Football in September | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

Even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the real life of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theater back then. . . . So-the people a thousand years from now'll know . . . this is the way we were . . . in our growing up, in our marrying, in our living and in our dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Play's the Thing | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...disposes of 28,000 stray dogs a year, but the Animal Protective League will not permit their use in laboratories. A California delegate complained that in his state unwanted dogs are made into fertilizer: "But ... we don't dare show visitors through our laboratories for fear they'll hear a dog bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: High Pressure Convention | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...everyone who reads the popular magazines must know, "Lady in the Lake" is something new in movies. You're meant to identify yourself with a private detective through whose eyes you see the picture. If you have the misfortune to succeed, you'll wriggle when you hear yourself (Robert Montgomery) emitting hideous belly-laughs, tossing off smug wisecracks, and kissing a woman who can contort her mouth as if it were a landed cel. But the chances are you won't identify yourself with any body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/22/1947 | See Source »

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