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Word: speaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islanders of the North Carolina Danks speak the purest "Anglo-Saxon" McDavid has found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Isoglosses | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Claims on the Whole Man. All agreed that the Protestant churches should speak out against Communist encroachments. The problem was, what could a group representing practically all of non-Catholic Christianity agree on saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Surface | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...SHEPHERD, SPEAK! (629 pp.)-Upton Sinclair-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last of Lanny? | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Shepherd, Speak!-the tenth (and "I hope the last," says Upton Sinclair) of the Lanny books-the author has brought his hero's adventures up to date. Apparently working on the reasonable assumption that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last of Lanny? | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Monstrous. In Milwaukee, Arno Frankenstein petitioned for a change of name because people keep phoning and asking to speak to the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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