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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the meantime, the undeniable injustice of the taxes which discriminate to keep millions from voting goes on serving as fuel for the already overheated elements of discontent and Axis propaganda fire. Bilbo, Senator from Mississippi, where less than ten per cent of the citizens vote, was elected on a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Time for Talk | 11/17/1942 | See Source »

> More pretended than real were the few actual deliveries to which Reader Alexander refers: they had already been started (for foreign governments and private shippers) before the wartime program got under way. "Not a damn one of them"-to quote Maritime Commissioner Land-"ever got into the show."-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

"The Verce of Brooklyn." Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, 34, had been Elson's teammate in broadcasting the Series ever since 1936. A wavy-haired, wise and wide-awake guy from Mississippi, he is the "Verce of Brooklyn" by virtue of having been official announcer at the Dodgers' baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 50,000,000 Ears | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Because many of his Negro pupils come from communities where modern sanitary equipment is lacking, practically every landscape painted in his Atlanta classes contains a privy. Sometimes Painter Woodruff affectionately refers to his group of budding landscapists as "the Outhouse School."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Beaux-Arts | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Thirty years ago the phrase "Gentleman Jim has won again" meant a pugilist named Corbett. Today it refers to a cagey politician whose last name is Farley. For, in the New York Democratic Convention yesterday, Jim's man won the nomination for Governor hands down. The victory of Attorney General...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Knockout | 8/21/1942 | See Source »

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