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Word: norness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounded U.S. officials reflected that neither Hill nor Jones could speak a word of Czech, probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Over the Hill | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

A Fourth Estate. In a way, Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A New Ingredient | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Once S. S. explained the secret of his success: "There never was anyone whom I was afraid to ask to write for me." One popular writer, Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, stood fast for a while: he said he would be neither "lured nor McClured." Eventually McClure got him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Great Muckralcer | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week, Pancho experimented with something new. He played tennis on the slick, wooden floor of the 7th Regiment Armory for the National Indoor Championship. Neither the strange surface nor the deceptive lighting unsettled him; he breezed easily through the early rounds. What annoyed him was the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors & Out | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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