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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went out. Listeners above could hear his teeth chattering and he seemed short of breath. Once he said: "I'm freezing to death." But he stuck it out to 4,500. "I'll say it's cold down here. There goes a big white jellyfish. I never saw anything like that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Roseanna McCoy (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio). In all its years of mining movies out of the trigger-happy hills of U.S. history and legend, Hollywood had somehow never hit on the famous feud of the West Virginia Hatfields and the Kentucky McCoys. With Roseanna McCoy, Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Irving (Enchantment) Reis have made good the oversight. The result is primarily a story of young love, more pastoral than pugnacious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...This is a good marriage. I love my wife and I am confident she loves me...She loves me in bed, and she never shows the slightest interest in any other men..." Four years later, Grace Tate made love to the son of a local Irish politician in the back seat of her car. When people found out, as people will, the Tate marriage was ruined and so was Grace's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pennsylvania Story | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly to women, discussed their complaints with frankness but never with vulgarity, harped on their fears of ignorant and unhygienic doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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