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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their New York City reception last week was warm enough to take the arctic chills out of their bones. When it was all over and they were all thawed out, they quietly slipped out of town, soon to return to duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Welcome Home | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Chambers' principal source in the State Department would take the documents home in a briefcase. Chambers would call on him, pick up the documents, have them rushed to Baltimore to be microfilmed, then return the originals to the official the same night. By the time the documents were back in department files next morning, Chambers would be in New York, opening up his tobacco pouch from which he drew his microfilm copies to deliver to Colonel Boris Bykov, the chief Soviet military intelligence agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: To Be Continued | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...were given Student Aid appointments last summer, 52 have asked to return this year, the office reported. Places of occupation, all in New England, include the Watertown Arsenal, the U. S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Connecticut, and other government stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors, Seniors Eligible for Civil Service Vacancies | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

...government tabled the trial until "after February 1," permitting Polk to return to College for reading and exam periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polk Delays Trip To Greece After Trial Is Put Off | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk jumped to his death, the tragic figure of thousands of men of good will who stubbornly held to the theory that the liberal can work with the Communist. In Manhattan, a distraught Russian schoolteacher leaped from an upper window in the Soviet consulate to escape return to Russia. More than speeches, reports or eyewitness accounts of life under Communism, her act nakedly revealed the bitter despair behind the glowing promises in Communism's workers' paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fighter in a Fighting Year | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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