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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nights Off. Tough as they were, Mooney and Bird soon found that Skid Row was tougher. One time Mooney got violently ill having a sociable drink of beer and wine, and had to quit for the day. After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Land of the Living Dead | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Leech's "Utopia on the Rocks-British Socialism in Action" was a readable but superficial, highly editorialized and sparsely documented roundup of the crisis.What Journalist Leech had set out to prove was that most of the blame for Britain's plight lay on the Labor government and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumpus Raiser | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

In Cheyenne, Wyo., the "Ghost Patrol," which in bedraggled skull & crossbones regalia had been terrorizing the community, was unmasked as nine pint-sized hoodlums (aged nine to 14). In court they told Judge Walter Phelan that their juvenile reign of terror had been inspired by ABC's radio program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Ghost Patrol | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Laurence, tipped off last spring by a chemist friend of the theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Short Cut? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

In 1934, when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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