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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none of the sentimental cuteness about him that makes some child stars so objectionable; he acts like an authentic small boy. All through the film, there are glimpses of the "small boy" world...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: The Fallen Idol | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...another thing, none of the stories is really more than the literary prospectus of a story situation. Characters are in the same place at the end as at the beginning, and they have been stuck there all along. Robert Sherwood's "One Man's Sorrow," is particularly static...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...Surrender. Hotheads along the riverbank cried that the ground had been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Gold Rush | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week, in a report to U.N.'s General Assembly, the Negotiators revealed what progress they had made trying to reconcile the two plans: exactly none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: No-Progress Report | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...drug that would kill the little villains without damaging the tissues of their human victims. A few chemical drugs were synthesized. Salvarsan, "606," developed by Ehrlich, proved to be effective against syphilis. Much later, in 1935, came the sulfa drugs, the medical wonders of their day. But none of the chemical "magic bullets" was effective against more than a few disease organisms, and all of them were apt to have dangerous toxic effects on human tissues...

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

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