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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a wonderful party. With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Robert Graves writes poems to please himself and other poets; he writes novels only to feed himself and other Graveses (his wife; six children). But because he is one of the most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Pot | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Cut Off Their Ears. Hearstling (New York Journal-American) James Horan (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf) snapped up the offer. Desperate Men is the result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Seiler's recommendations were never written down in a formal report but consisted of comments to vice-President Reynolds and Dining Hall Manager Heaman. Some of his minor suggestions, like toasters in Winthrop House, were adopted; proposals for more efficient steam tables were discarded as too costly. Seiler's general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Action on Food | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The story of "The Father" is quite simple. A husband and wife are fighting a war of brains for the control of their daughter. The battle has been going on for some time and in the 24-hour course of the play the immediate cause of the trouble is what...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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