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Word: morings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Of Melissa's 6,000 people, 1,840 are unemployed. The peasants live in filthy hillside hovels, ten and twelve to a room. Between them, 6,000 people hold 7,400 acres of hard, rocky land, which means an average of little more than an acre for each-barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

the Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Seven-Day Wonder | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

But Pearson and Pegler had little time for such mere jabs from outsiders last week; they were too busy shouting worse names, kicking and gouging each other and yelling "foul." All this, cried Pearson in aggrieved tones, was due to a fact that Pearson unblushingly made public: Pegler had violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The name of Munch was not big in U.S. music. He had visited for the first time in the 1946-47 season, to be guest conductor in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; in 1948 he had conducted the French National (Radio) Orchestra on its U.S. tour. Although he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

A Flat Stomach. When Bostonians heard Munch conduct their orchestra on his 1946 visit, his music had shocked some. It seemed more violent and more rushed, particularly in the allegro movements of Beethoven symphonies. But one man was not at all surprised when Munch was asked to succeed Koussy. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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