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Word: observerer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's final argument will be open to the public and the subject will be on the "taxibility of incomes of the beneficiary of a trust." Though this sounds like a dull and difficult subject for the average layman, any observer can get a fairly good idea of what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Debaters Prepare for Final Scrap in 'Commonwealth of Ames' | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

When the casual observer, having overshot Langdell Hall, lands in someone's back yard and mutters, "It's not much, but it's a roof over your head," the occupants smile and retort: "It doesn't look like much from here, but wait till you get inside." In one corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

The Company's handful of agents settled down to a lusty, hard-drinking life (according to one observer they could not sign their names before 10 in the morning or remember them after 6 in the evening), and conducted brisk export in rubber, timber, tobacco, birds' nests, camphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BORNEO: Sunset on the Sulu Sea | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Nobody conked the ambassador. Furthermore, Detroit admitted that his wife was handsome. She wore a semi-transparent summer dress at the Ford plant and her slip kept climbing up underneath it. Everybody admired her legs. Said one observer in a hoarse aside: "Don't tell me that's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Best Foot Forward | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Citizens First | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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