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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Codicil. In Manistee, Mich., 83-year-old John Schultz admitted burning down his house and four other buildings on his farm, explained that it was the only way to stop his relatives from wrangling over who would inherit his property.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

David Dubinsky, the subject of TIME'S Aug. 29 cover story, seems to me a first-rate example of telling the news, whenever possible, through people. Dubinsky and his union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, also serve, I think, to illustrate the way TIME has kept its readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Looking back over the record of our coverage of Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U., I was interested to find that TIME'S first mention of them occurred two decades ago. Those two decades cover all but six years of the span of TIME itself. In its Aug. 19, 1929 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

In weeks of preparing a political barbecue pit for Harry Vaughan, the Senate subcommittee investigating five-percenters made no secret of its intentions-it was going to spit him, spin him over the fires of righteousness until sin dripped out of him like gravy, and lug him back to President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

At first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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