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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Sob Sister Browning, a veteran of five years on the Trib and currently winning more Page One bylines than any other city staffer, borrowed some red & green ankle-strapped shoes from a Trib secretary and took off her wedding ring. She bought a scarlet coat, laid on a heavy job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

In some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Helpers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

No Epics. But the congestion and confusion, Berlin decided, had also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Helpers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

In his long and highly successful career as composer and conductor, the late Richard Strauss formed some sharply spiced opinions on music and musicians. Frequently he got a few on paper. Last week Western Europeans were chuckling over a selection of his articles, essays and open letters published by Zurich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Bugs & Spice | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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