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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With them he got a pair of magic spectacles to decipher the symbols. One look by anyone else, Joseph said, would mean instant death. After months of speaking from behind a blanket while awe-stricken neighbors took down his words, Joseph Smith produced a 275,000-word document which he called The Book of Mormon. Mark Twain, the great debunker of his day, later described it as "chloroform in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations." In the American Club, U.S. businessmen snickered knowingly over the old unprintable gags, as they followed Eva in the daily papers. And befurred society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Little Eva | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...mean man who won't promise; and there has been nothing mean about the sponsors of television. Television has loitered "just around the corner" for so long, says President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. of the Zenith Radio Corp., because it is trapped in a "vicious triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pay-As-You-See | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...disputation has gone on for 18 years. But Miss Seeds, no mean disputer herself, also had the powerful backing of the University of California at Los Angeles. Her pupils were to learn by doing. They built model villages, fashioned Chinese pottery, model looms, mastered arithmetic by running a model grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Battle of Westwood Hills | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have." She was cleared of being "un-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Battle of Westwood Hills | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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