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Word: norness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Lady & the Commissar | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dictator at Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Early diagnosis is particularly important in the treatment of tuberculosis. Last week doctors were offered a new test which is painless, cheap and simple. "Plastotest" requires no hypodermic jab and no scratching to break the skin, needs no technical experts nor costly machinery. A preparation of tuberculin is applied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T.B. Test | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Intelligent criticism of communism--or even suspected communism--requires more than a hasty attack under the name of a temporary group. Any affirmation of the advantages of democratic government must rest on positive ideas, not on random shots at the other side--and the Soviets will certainly make propaganda grist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foul Ball | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

To many Americans, Trippe's given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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