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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . You touch briefly on William Morgan, and his attempted "exposure" of Masonic secrets ... In the old Batavia cemetery . . . stands a tall shaft surmounted by the figure of a man. This monument was erected in 1880 by the National Christian Association, a group opposed to all forms of secret societies. An...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Something of this same shoring up and pulling down was going on in the nation's foreign policy last week. In Europe the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff talked things over with their Atlantic pact allies and announced that there would be some kind of military organization by 1950...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Raising Up & Tearing Down | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

The Patriotic Communists. Strange and disturbing scenes from the past-some vicious, some tragically funny-rose from the pages of the Government's record. There was irascible old General Stilwell, in 1944, sneering in his reports to Washington over Chiang's reluctance to swallow "the bitter pill of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

For U.S. policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Petition in Bankruptcy | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Bread & Poems. Black Bart was not the first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stagecoach Business | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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