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Word: rememberable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cold, Wet Rain. In Berlin, a cold, wet wind whipped the stinging rain into red banners planted every 50 feet along Unter den Linden, in the Russian sector. A parade of workers shuffled drearily past while loudspeakers blared. Most of them had to parade whether they liked it or not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: May Day | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

At first, U.N. officials could not even remember who had suggested the rock in the first place. One functionary recalled that the name of the sponsoring organization had contained the word "Friendship." Another remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Embarrassing | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with each, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

Added California Schoolmarm Kathryn H. Martin, in the educational magazine Clearing House: "People who are too smart rarely make good teachers [because they] can't understand why other people make so many mistakes. . . . If I didn't remember how I felt about long division, I'd go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Teachers Teach | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

E. L. Gandar Dower, Tory M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland, reminisced about the canings he had received as a schoolboy: "I cannot remember that I ever suffered from it, and I took my revenge on my housemaster years later by making him my trustee and executor of my will. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beat Him When He Sneezes? | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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