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Word: stoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one night last week, the doorbell began ringing at a fashionable old apartment in Stoneleigh Court, a stone's throw from Washington's Mayflower Hotel. The callers were admitted by Kansas' 76-year-old Senator Clyde Reed, ushered in with a cautious admonition: "Now boys, this is not a drinking party." The warning was unnecessary. The men who gathered in the handsome, antique-filled room had come with a dead serious purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Twenty Senators | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Maracay, a malaria-ridden coffee town, was made the proving ground. DDT squads were recruited, and a fine, white-stone laboratory, office and warehouse were built. Some 100,000 children were examined and more than three million home visits were made. In time Maracay was declared malaria-free and the area of treatment was expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Men in Green | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...wall of England's Rugby School is a granite slab with this inscription: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tight Little Yacht | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Acquaintance. Follansbee's management finally woke up to what seemed an alarming fact: the company was about to be sold from under it. Frantically President Lawson Stone, who said he knew nothing about the deal, demanded that the buyer identify himself. He got no more information. New York's Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein got into the act: he had a clue. The figures 625, he said, if ticked off on the alphabet, read FEE. That corresponded to the Follansbee ticker symbol: FEE. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange were also looking into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follcmsbee Mystery | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...first impression of Konitsa, as we bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Glimpses of a Battlefront | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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