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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"A job like this starts with a field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Behind the Glass | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Pastor Martin Niemöller was packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oil for Hinges | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Soft Blue Walls. Between lectures and educational movies, wide-eyed mothers & fathers stared at the refurbished classrooms with their soft blue walls and off-white ceilings, newly varnished floors, took in the fluorescent fixtures, sleekly comfortable seats and desks. Comparing them with the kerosene-lit, bench-lined rooms still familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Arkansas Travelers | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

No one was saying what touched off the explosion, but shrewd La Salle Streeters put their finger on one possibility: the opposite postwar policies of Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum. At Ward's, Avery has pulled in his horns and refused to expand, piling up cash for the depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: No. 12 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

This week, the syndicate faced the more realistic prospect of dividing up something less than $7,000, before taxes. Biggest chunk of cash came from the sale of a Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Giveaway Fadeaway | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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