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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Entranced | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...park. With a hiss and a rush, the mixture of hydrogen and municipal cooking gas poured into the first of the great balloons lying limp on the greensward of Le Mans' Quinconces des Jacobins. At home, the housewives of Le Mans were busily trying to cook their Sunday dinners, so from time to time the gas had to be turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily in the hot sun as the big gas bags, their sides painted with advertisements of the local brewers and corsetiers, began to take shape like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: They're Off! | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity school advised approximately 500 graduating Seniors and 700 relatives and ends to conduct less personal introduction and begin to live when he delivered the traditional Baccalaureate sermon last Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sperry Warns of Waiting to Live' At Baccalaureate | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

Last month NBC decided that The Author Meets the Critics was now good enough, signed it up on a fine Sunday afternoon spot (4:30 p.m.). This Sunday's subject, for the first airing over a full network: The Story of Mrs. Murphy, by Natalie Anderson Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Amateur Meets an Audience | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Ugliest city: Knoxville, "intense, concentrated, degrading ugliness," mixed with a backwoods piety that allows no hard liquor, no Sunday baseball, no Sunday movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gunther's America | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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