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Word: markely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sunshine | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband-one of those thankless, long-suffering bystander parts which might have been merely sappy-is ably played by Mark Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Swank St. Mark's School, some 25 miles from Boston, couldn't find a clergyman for its headmaster. So last week the school's trustees did the next best thing: they chose a man who had been born at St. Mark's, raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedigrees & Principles | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

This will be Harvard's final home meet until Feb. 12 when Army comes to town, and will also mark the first and last home appearance of Louria and Ray this year. They will face Columbia next month but will be unavailable after February graduation...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Sees Action Today on Four Fronts | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...gold medal and certificate given to him, Dr. Pressly says, mark the approaching end of the old country doctor who worked alone. And a good thing, too, he thinks. For the past six years, Dr. Pressly has had two doctors working for him on salary. He has a hard time keeping them because they prefer the "easier life" of the big-city specialist. He has two nurses, a maid and bookkeeper. His brick-veneer, well-equipped clinic building, which started out with seven rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vanishing Horse & Buggy | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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