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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four U.S. submarines-two streamlined snorkel types, Cochino and Tusk, and two older fleet types-left their base at New London, Conn, six weeks ago and headed quietly into the Atlantic. A brief Navy release announced that they were off on a training cruise to Ireland and return. They reached Londonderry all right, on July 29, and left for home-but by an exceedingly circuitous route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voyage to Hammerfest | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Parting. Mrs. Handa, a weary, practical housewife, objected shrilly. She was fed up with her husband's ritualistic drum-beating and flute-playing; the neighbors had ostracized her. But Handa was unmoved. He sold the family's clothes; in return, the new altar was installed in the Handa household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Laughing God | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...than in making democracy work. "Government leaders just like to talk about democracy," a Bangkok university student complained last week. "They spell it out with their hands, and rub it out with their feet." Most Siamese wish fondly that cowlicked, 21-year-old little King Phumiphon (pronounced Poomeepone) would return from his voluntary exile in Switzerland, where he spends his time writing songs. His 'Tis Sundown and Rainfall are enthusiastically sung by Siamese students everywhere and played frequently in Bangkok nightclubs. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Land of Ihe Cheerful People | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...four Mayo Clinic researchers (TIME, May 2), sufferers from arthritis* got a guarded flicker of hope for the future; cortisone almost always eases the symptoms of their crippling affliction. But the new drug is only a palliative, not a cure, and must be used continuously or the symptoms return. It is also pitifully scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Short Cut? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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