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Word: south (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speedy military success forces him to start fulfilling his promises. To control the heavily populated and industrial South, he has had to shift his attention from rural areas to the immensely more difficult task of governing cities and running trade and industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lesson From China | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...interviewer he would quit Broadway when the current adventure was ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $2,000,000 Wingspread | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Neighbors | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

This is a simple story of a New York boy of middle-class background who becomes a poet, sails to South America and back on a freighter, has a love affair with a girl in Greenwich Village, and goes to Paris. It is one more report on that special subdivision of the American Dream in which poets, artists, musicians and other emancipated spirits defy the Philistines, have love affairs without tears, and go forth alone to meet a hostile and uncomprehending world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Idyll | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Route. In Phoenix, Ariz., Howard Lampton advertised in the Phoenix Republic's "Lost" column: "Teeth, uppers near Avalon on South Central; lowers near Riverside ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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