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Word: pense (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ At Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Running as if they had just been let out of the antelope pens near the course, seven Engineers negotiated the hilly, 4 1/4 mile grind before John Cogan, the first Harvard man, hit the finish line. A Holy Cross runner was sandwiched in between the sixth and seventh Tech finishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen Find Lowest Denominator In Downing Crimson Harriers, 15-61 | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finest Jail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

This "absolute leader" turned out to be Chicago's Reynolds Pen Co., first and foremost exploiter ($20,857,000 sold in two years) of ball-point pens. But why were Chairman "Milton Reynolds and President Franklin Lamb willing to sell this purported gold mine for a song? Reynolds, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Underwater Bargain | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

With Congress in recess and President Truman a sure thing for the Democratic nomination in 1948, the nation's cartoonists turned their pens on the nation's best political show-the scramble for the Republican nomination. Convention time was still ten months off. But in country clubs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: In the Big Tent | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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