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Word: suppers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made some bad mistakes. The police tagged him as a delinquent. Then he stole a $30 rifle, was sent off to the Colorado Industrial School for Boys at nearby Golden. There Anthony, now 14, got in trouble again: he broke the silence rule going in to supper, offered another boy his plate because he wasn't hungry himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO,MICHIGAN: Crime & Punishment | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...Last Supper Jesus' words "one of you shall betray me" are not a prophecy but a command-and interpreted as such by Judas, the only one of the apostles who understands the choice Jesus has made. Jesus, knowing that Judas understands, gives him the sop to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Heresy, New Version | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...talent for getting to the core of abstruse subjects made him one of the leading lights of the Shop Club, a once-a-month supper club founded (to talk shop) in 1921 by Conant and a group of his faculty friends and their wives. Conant was a good listener and a quick questioner, especially on history, literature and philosophy. He once remarked to an associate who was studying 17th Century history: "I sometimes wonder if our two subjects aren't both the same, when you get high enough into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chemist of Ideas | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

French Canadians revised the evening routine: cows were milked early, supper served late. Quebec's most popular radio serial, Un Homme et Son Péché (A Man and His Sin), was back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Man & His Sin | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...search narrowed down to a member of the Ladies' Aid Society who had served food at the reception. Barone found that a year before she had also served at a church supper where three people had contracted typhoid. Her granddaughter had the disease after visiting her. A boarder came down with it in 1936. She was then suspected, but no infection could be found. This time tests were positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Detroit's Typhoid Mary | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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