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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of Phi Mu Alpha fraternity. In his senior year, he won third place in a national singing contest, received a music scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He spent the following summer in Chicago, dividing his time between singing lessons and reading law in the offices of his mother's cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE G.O.P.: DEWEY | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Mother Russia and her chicks have not publicly received the Markos government into the Communist brood. Their aid is still covert-providing training camps, bases of operations, military supplies, food, funds. But since Markos' proclamation of his "Free" Greek government, all the Communist countries have publicly set up societies to help Markos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Abductions of anti-Communist Viennese by what the press delicately calls "one of the occupying powers" have recently risen to the rate of one a week. Sounding somewhat like an anxious mother telling her children not to take candy from strangers, Austria's Ministry of the Interior last week counseled: 1) insist on seeing the badge of any agent who approaches you claiming to be a policeman; 2) do not enter any car unless the agent in charge is a legitimate policeman; 3) leave your name, the name of the agent and the number of his car with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Candy from Strangers | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Pot in Every Chicken | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...better look at her. The simple folk of the congregation are sure it is a miracle. Their priest (Frank Sinatra) is afraid the floor just sagged, and makes a carefully equivocal statement about the incident. But whether or not the miracle is good enough for Mother Church, it is plenty good enough for Hollywood. Arrangements are made to release the picture right away, the receipts to go into the finest hospital money can buy. Dissolve, slowly, into a happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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