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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essentially, the C.N.R. presidency is a job of selling the public. Many a Canadian has criticized the road as a white elephant and urged that it be joined to the privately owned Canadian Pacific. Gordon, who will take over on Jan. i, is expected to drum home the theme that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Banker at the Throttle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

One day in the '20s, Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Burdick had looked vainly for the early '20s Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yank at Oxford | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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