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Word: recordsized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In your "Report from Munich" you quote U.S. Governor van Wagoner as having said: "Prison records aren't always bad politically," excusing thus his policy of giving office to convicted Nazis. The philosophy behind these words ... is the very essence of Naziism and-as many think-also of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Though the course is not a guaranteed cure-all, the average student improves noticeably, records show. A student who reads at the rate of 200 words a minute at the beginning of the course can often read 400 to 420 words a minute at the end of the month's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading Course Uses Movies To Increase Students' Speed | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

The world's youngest mother is generally conceded to be Lina Medina, of Peru (TIME, May 29, 1939), who gave birth to a 6-lb. boy, by Caesarean section, when she was four years and eight months old. The youngest U.S. mother is a matter of dispute. The American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother at Ten | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

The news of Gold Rush Album is that such superb pictorial records of the migration were kept. Editor Jackson's collection begins with pastoral glimpses of California, includes the early accounts of the discovery of gold, and scenes along the various routes-the Lassen Road, the Salt Lake-Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Argonauts | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

The women of New Crete have a wonderful time choosing husbands, but sex, for the elite, is only for breeding purposes; the rest of the time, explains a poet, "we lie side by side, or foot to foot, without bodily contact, and our spirits float upward and drift in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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