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Word: preventers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized Rumanian prisoners of war into the Red army's Tudor Vladimires-cu division-named for a fierce 19th Century Rumanian peasant leader who rebelled against the boyars. His outlook and literary style was much like that of a modern Communist. Sample: "No laws can prevent you from returning evil for evil. If a serpent crosses your path, hit it and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...only a spatter of applause. A Red delegate in the side-aisle flicked a paper at Arthur Horner, who answered by smoothing back his hair. Thereupon the side-aisle comrade tried to prevent the motion from coming to a vote; but the anti-strike resolution was carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shaken Symbol | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...from you, uninterested in your feelings and your concerns. On the contrary, I am standing there like a great pin cushion for you to stick pins into me-all the things you want ... for yourself ... are part of the prayer that I am saying, and I couldn't prevent them being part of my intentions in saying the Mass, even if I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religious Dance | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Ella Mason, chatty hostess of a daytime food quiz show on Manhattan's WHN (which this week changes its name to WMGM-in honor of affiliated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), has solved the problem of how to prevent audiences from prompting quiz contestants. Her contestants will wear earmuffs of sequins, poppies and plumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...ships his product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Refunds? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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