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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing to Do. "Around midnight, everyone crashes out into the street and runs through the fog and rain looking for something to do. There is nothing to do and the gin wears off and the thing ends in a steamy fish-and-chip shop or over a plate of spaghetti...

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

To Arthur Schlesinger, this view of the Civil War is both pulpy and dangerous. It glides over the fact "that the slavery system was producing a closed society in the South" and that to protect its slave economics, the South was resorting to "book-burning, the censorship of the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tragedy of History | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

The Browning Version and A Harlequinade (by Terence Rattigan; produced by Maurice Evans in association with Stephen Mitchell) stars Maurice Evans and Edna Best in a double bill requiring their British accents. As playwrighting, it is not too far from double bilge; Rattigan's study of a defeated schoolmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Playlets In Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Education, Los Angeles Board of Education-altogether, 200 public-school systems and more than 1,000 private and parochial schools. He was selling over a million records a y.ear.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Take Nice Jumps | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

On the advice of his editorial board-the Eastman School of Music's Howard Hanson, Columbia University's Douglas Moore and Child Psychologist Randolph Smith-he also started putting out the kind of music children didn't know they would like until they tried it. He began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Take Nice Jumps | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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