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Word: policemanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for a Study. Despite its crystal days & nights, Beirut was not entirely free of haze last week. On the southern outskirts of the city, past Parliament Square, where a bemused policeman stood directing traffic with one hand and counting his beads with the other, delegates from 44 countries were gathered for the third annual conference of UNESCO (the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Their purpose was to remove all global misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Without Distinction | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Look Now. In Tacoma, Wash., police were hunting for the self-conscious burglar who turned Policeman George Paul's picture to the wall while he was robbing the apartment of Paul's sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...daytime students are in class, taking their car keys with them, whereas at night it is reasonable to suspect that someone might be home who could move a car in case of a fire. Furthermore, the sergeant had always assumed that the Houses were reasonably fire resistant. As the policeman explained matters to me, all this enforcement of the parking regulations started about ten years ago, just prior to the war. As he recalled if, students were allowed to park in the disputed area . . . this was obviously denying the Cambridge garage owners a nice chunk of money; consequently the local...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Analysis | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Answer Yes or No. More people apparently go crazy (succumb to psychoses) every year, and perhaps the majority of the U.S. is slightly daffy (neurotic), in one way or another. There are more untreated neurotics walking the streets than anyone but a policeman or a psychiatrist suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...spot in the Square, the crossing in front of the Coop, has been made progressively safer. In addition to a traffic light, a policeman with a loud speaker was added last year to the protection force. In fact the foot traveler is now ridiculously safer there then he is on the other side of the subway island, or in from of Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Safety First | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

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