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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over the place, and hulking Sub-Menace Lon Chaney Jr. takes a simple, boobish pleasure in cracking walnuts with his biceps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation of the six million dwelling units which the 1940 census showed were so sub-standard that it said children ought not to be brought up in them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Holdup | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

...what was the goal? When was it to be reached? And . . . what species of sub-man would have survived to enjoy them? That was how he had suddenly seen it. . .There was no goal because all was changed. . . The goal was an illusion. Therefore, it was necessary to fashion a political philosophy which would care for the living, for the present as for the future, for the future was in the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: En Route Where? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Henceforth, all graduate students seeking rooms off the University premises must take their problems to Phillips Brooks House, where a new office will open on March 10. Applications for temporary quarters by married students may also be filed at PBH. All listings of rooms, share-homes, and sub-lets should be referred to this office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Office at Straus Will Move To New Quarters | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

...Mistreatment" & Cordiality. As expected, Cyrankiewicz's Cabinet marked a leftward swing. Mikolajczyk was out as Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture; also out were two of Mikolajczyk's partymen. In his place was Russian-trained Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Com munist Party's secretary. Undisturbed in his sub-Cabinet post of Under Secretary of State, but stronger than ever behind the scenes, was Moscow-trained Jakub Berman, Poland's real boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: We Are All Gentlemen | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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