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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Was a Vampire | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...reason for Asahi's unique position: its reputation for integrity. Says Chairman of the Board Chu Hasebe: "Asahi is like a big tree. It stands alone and conspicuous, where any wind can find and blow against it. We have had our friends and our enemies, but we have never distorted the facts for either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Big Tree | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...such profound cold the molecules will be almost deathly still. Zero itself'will not have been reached. Ityis a will-o'-the-wisp game that physicists play: zero can be pursued and approached, but never actually captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steps Going Down | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Keep the Change | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents gave her a year to get somewhere in show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Melt Steel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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