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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As every Sherlock Holmes fan knows, 221 B Baker Street is the great detective's London address. When a Press story in TIME'S June 20 issue disclosed that anybody could now get in touch with him there, mystery fans all over the world began to write.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

I was glad to see your balanced comments on Wimbledon [TIME, July 4] ... There has never been a grander set of Americans than those who came over this year-good sportsmen, good players and good lookers, and all great favorites of the crowd. Ted Schroeder won our hearts in one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

As their time ran out, opposition Senators took on an air of desperation and despair. "We will be making the mistake of our lives," cried Missouri's Forrest Donnell. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry raised an atomic cloud over the issue: "A treaty supersedes a law. Are we committing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Far-off Frontier | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

The President looked a little 11tired after the Shriners' convention in Chicago. He said he would like to get his hands on the guy who had kept him awake one whole night singing Chloe. But he had a greater annoyance. The current scandal over war-contract procurement and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The General Gets His Orders | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

When the court recessed for the summer, Frank Murphy went home to Michigan. There, one day last week in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, night closed over the career of the apostle of the dew and the dawn. Stricken by coronary thrombosis, Frank Murphy, 59, died in his sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of an Apostle | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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