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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold had just received a visit from Belgian Premier Gaston Eyskens. Together they had worked out an important political agreement. Eyskens would ask Parliament this week to hold a "popular consultation" on whether or not the King should return. If Leopold received less than 55% of the referendum votes, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Going Places? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Premier Eyskens' announcement of a plan obviously approved by his Christian Socialist party instantly renewed Belgium's dormant political battle over the King's comeback. Leopold's supporters had gathered a 25-million franc ($71,429) war chest for the impending political campaign. His chief antagonists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Going Places? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Though the government set up a commission to investigate the find, hardly anyone doubted its authenticity. The Bank of Mexico's research laboratories announced that the documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whose Bones? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Perpetual Arriver | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Dr. Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Warning | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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