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Word: messe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Not Completely Satisfactory | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the tropics and the Balkans. The only thing more incomprehensible than the plot is the notion that any one could follow it. It is a mess of pagan rites, political wrongs, an opera bouffe general (Hugo Haas), vociferous emerald miners, and the love of a bus driver (John Raitt) for a high-born spitfire (Dorothy Sarnoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Because "we don't want our roofs to look like a mess of bird cages," Vice-President Reynolds said yesterday that only one television aerial would be allowed on each of the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Rules One Video Aerial For Each House | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

...yerself a mess of mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...warm, and the mammoths fattened on greenery. But little by little, ice accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can the Earth Capsize? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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