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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vanishing American. Although he will be 70 next year, Douglas MacArthur has lost none of the West Pointer's bearing. For the past 34 years, he never missed a day's duty because of illness. In his plainly furnished office, he works seven days a week, composing directives by hand (he does not like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly solved by Marxism-Leninism...My mistake was that I did not recognize right away that my critics were correct. But better late than never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Better Late Than Never | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which had chosen to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Polterjacket | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...that they wanted to give him a formal vote of confidence. In case anyone had any doubts about the future of Harold Stoke, the board had a word from Earl Long: "I am glad to leave to your judgment," said the governor, "the administration of L.S.U. I have never interfered and will not interfere with the selection of those to head the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Carry On | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...film is a skillful editing job of footage shot chiefly by military photographers, both Allied and Axis. In selecting the material, MOT film editors looked at some 65 million feet of war film. About 80% of the pictures have been restricted, and never shown to the public. The amount of good footage available to illustrate each military operation has necessarily determined the shape of the film; in turn, the film has often gained in comprehensibility by giving shape to the shapelessness of war. The words of the book, where possible, have been used as commentary to the pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Picture, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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