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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sir: . . . [You] failed to point out that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

¶Although Professor Pope's claim is persuasive, the National Portrait Gallery in London insists that the phrase "a vile caricature" refers to all four heads in the sketch. TIME must plead with Keats:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Bearer's Progress. Seldom has a man risen so far and so fast in Dominion political life. Descendant of New England Tories of Revolutionary War days-he sometimes refers to his "New England conscience"-Doug Abbott had nothing to do with politics until he was 41. His career was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: New Star | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Vulgarity at the level of The Vixens has a polish that almost absolves it; literary standards are irrelevant to its high sheen and jet propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scarlet Splash | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Liquor in the Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Truth About America | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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