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Word: norness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article states: "[Pan Am's] Lisbon base for a time was the only Allied radio outpost on the Continent." As a wartime "rockape" or inhabitant of Gibraltar at Britain's Cable and Wireless station, I would protest that neither the Germans nor the Italians at any period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

What manner of man was this curly-haired, spectacled witness who looked more like a peaceful, carefully dressed clerk than a secret Government agent? For nine years he had led a double life. To his wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Unfair Surprise | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Washington readers could not remember a time when their daily newspapers had missed publication-until last week. Then a wildcat strike of A.F.L. pressmen shut down the capital's four dailies for a day, until the International Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strike in Washington | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Now, a plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Gentlemen Minks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Like most Methodist ministers at the turn of the century, Virginia's young (36) James Cannon Jr. was dedicated to the defeat of the Demon Rum. Gaunt and black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tangled Moralist | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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