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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sale. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry leaped to that suggestion: "Figures handed me show that the U.S. has lost the sale of more than 300,000 bales of cotton. That number of bales could have been sold to Spain during [the past] two years." Added Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Symbol of What? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...time Gerhart walked into Bow Street Police Court this week he was-in an international sort of way-hotter than a sheriff's pistol. He was ordered to show cause why he should not be extradited to the U.S., and put in jail without bail for the eight days until the hearing begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: One Stowaway | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...trouble was that Vince Foster always got restless after the sun went down. Unless his manager kept watch on him, he would sneak out to a bar and stay out until morning. One night, he failed to show up for a fight in Chicago Stadium. But he still had that stunning punching power. The training course went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up from the Basement | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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