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Word: passing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through the scrub oak and cedars, Ella added a postscript: "Popa pass tonight. Will funeali him Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Funeralizing Uncle Row | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...headquarters in Paris, disillusioned staffers were telling each other that the famed French architect, Le Corbusier, now hard at work on plans for the U.N. buildings in New York City, was including special corridors for nations that wanted to by-pass an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Stefania Street now," answered the cop, "it's been changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant staring morosely into the water. "You don't seem to have followed my directions," the policeman remarked. "Not yet," said the peasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...They will wear tweeds, and bring prayers into sport clubs and discuss religion with those who usually by-pass the church," said Bishop Aulén, who commented on the fact that Vicar Norby of Nacka, who has held the Swedish shot-put record, boasts some of the largest congregations in Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priests in Tweeds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...letter admitted, had tried to stop the mob. One older boy, "indeed, performed an act of considerable courage when a smoke candle was thought to be endangering a child's life. Except for this," the Vice Chancellor concluded, "nothing can be said in extenuation of what must pass into University history as a shameful episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ragtime Hooligans | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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