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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which of the 14 oils in his show-all done in the past three years-were good ones? "That," said Kuhn cagily, was for time to decide, "and I don't mean TIME Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: I Gotta Be a Showman | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...possible for a Christian to be a Communist? It depends on what you mean by "Communist," says the Archbishop of York. Last week the Most Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett said that the early Christians were real communists, whose precept and practice had virtually disappeared from the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dangerous Rival | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Tallul'ah, an Indian word of unknown origin (it may mean "terrible"), came to her by way of her maternal grandmother from Tallulah Falls in northeastern Georgia. The falls are now dammed, but, appropriately, there is a Tallulah Power Plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...before the pre-election rise. Last May, when both the industrials and rails broke through their previous high marks, followers of the famed Dow theory had proclaimed the "confirmation" of a bull market (TIME, June 14). Now that the same averages had broken through their previous bottoms, did this mean that the bull had been displaced by the bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Wave | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jaunty Sermons | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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