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Word: pubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Light. The State Department cau tiously informed Moscow that the U.S. would join the negotiations - if the Krem lin were agreeable. Official Britain began applauding the moment the Poles pub lished their statement. "It shows," said a Foreign Office mouthpiece in a burst of unaccustomed enthusiasm, "that in the view of the Polish Government, as in that of the Soviet Government, all outstanding questions that divide them are open to negotiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pretty Kettle | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Glasgow police court, convicting a brothel keeper, describes her house as "a miniature League of Nations." In a Soho pub catering to all colors and nationalities, the barrel-bosomed proprietress deals thunderously with her conglomerate customers: "All right, you lovely people, it's eleven o'clock; get the hell out of here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Base of History | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

When the speeches flowered at the formal dedication last November, The Road was hardly more than a slot in the trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub lic mind. Travel-starved citizens dreamed of the day when they, too, might wheel the family sedan through Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, past Kluane Lake and Tanana (pronounced Ta´na naw) Crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: The Road | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eire's Columnist | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...known to be under the influence of stimulants, announced the latest sober step forward in Eli Elucidation thus: "Special Yale School to Study Alcoholism; Purpose Is to Train Community Leaders." If, when in New Haven sometime in the Post-War World, you are unable to locate the local pub, just appeal for some community leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BLUENOSES AROUND YALE? | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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