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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the volcano into which Clay had been throwing stones finally erupted. A federal grand jury indicted A. E. Funk Jr., 27-year-old son of Kentucky's attorney general, and with him his 34-year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eruption in Bourbon County | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Fire. Nevertheless, many a member began itching to compete again in the outer world, where wages were rising with a new period of prosperity. In 1854 a fire burned down the farm's flour mill and some other buildings. Though the loss involved only $9,000 (the farm was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Wreckage of a Dream | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

¶ Phi Theta Upsilon Fraternity pledges at Northern Illinois College of Optometry got even with Senior John Santarelli after he put them through an initiation "Hell Week." After dressing him in misfit shoes and clothes, they gave him a nickel spending money, put him on a plane at Chicago, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Death and decay loomed large in Maeterlinck's works. "Everywhere," wrote a critic, "Maeterlinck discerned signs of an inevitable decadence of the human race . . . According to him, 2,000 years hence human relations will have declined to the level of life in a termite colony." The insects whose lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Pursuit of Happiness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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