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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the war winter of 1941-42, a budget official had a bright idea: Why not fire Selman Waksman, an obscure Ukrainian-born microbiologist who was getting $4,620 a year for "playing around with microbes in the soil?" That sort of fun & games, the moneyman pointed out, had never really paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a World | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps to cheer Winnie, Joe also predicted that Labor would never govern in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...poor have been Robin Hoodwinked, Author Horan says, and assembles impressive evidence to prove his point. On the credit side, Dingus gets two gold stars from his biographer: 1) "He appeared to be faithful to his wife and to be fond of his children," and 2) "His personal courage never seems to have been questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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