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Word: sures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This fund," the statement claimed, "was instituted to propagate the disgraceful policy of separate but equal education in the United States. It makes sure that Negroes have no excuse to try to enter white colleges...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: YPH Accuses Charity Drive Of Fraud, Then Backs Down | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

From the Jukeboxes. In 1947, Scott flew to Lake Success. He heard the jukeboxes of America blaring the hit of the day, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I Don't Want to Leave the Congo. Unlike the missionaries in the jukebox hymn, the Rev. Scott was not so sure that "civilization is fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Cry for Humanity | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...65th opening night, the Metropolitan Opera hoped that "much of the glitter generally associated with the first-night audience [would] be secondary to that on the stage." General Manager Edward Johnson had scheduled an opener that was hard to beat: the late Richard Strauss's sure-fire Der Rosenkavalier, with a cast of "unusual interest," directed by the Met's most brilliant conductor, Fritz Reiner. But last week, when the great night rolled around again, the off stage competition was as usual just too tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragrant Cheddar | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...collected the royalties, but claimed that FTC's order last week to stop the practices was "entirely academic," since the licensing agreements and the patents had expired last March. FTC, aware of the lapse in patents, said that it had issued its order anyway just to be sure that Taylor would not start up his system again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT,NEW PRODUCTS: Monopoly on Paper? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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