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Word: suspectedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astronomer Fred L. Whipple thought Diana might provide a test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo to come back from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diana | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan Harrison (TIME, Feb. 28, 1944), followed up with The Suspect and Uncle Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Lillian was too young to suspect that kindly "Doc" Field, who was more repressed than most of the characters in Before the Sun Goes Down, had been secretly in love with her mother for nearly 20 years, and even kept a bridal bed made up in hopeful readiness. While waiting, "once a year in New York [Doc] found a woman whose body was slim and whose hair was fair and whose eyes were grey and he took her to bed, and for an instant out of all time he let himself believe that her flesh was the color of ripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Pennsylvania | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Deal hierarchy was more suspect by businessmen than Henry Agard Wallace. So when he moved in as Secretary of Commerce, he smartly laid low, concentrated on rejuvenating his department. Under the Roosevelt administration, the department, which had been ably organized by Herbert Hoover, had gone to pot. When Henry Wallace did speak up, he tried to pass as the new friend of businessmen (whom he had once implied were fascists). His technique: an imitation of Free Enterpriser Eric Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Stimulator | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...knowledge of the scores. In the Bach works, the recordings of Adolf Busch have been generally accepted in definitive. When he Busch interpretation is supported by the Pro Arto performance of the Brandenburg, and the Paris Conservatory's tradition on the Suite, there are reasonable grounds to suspect any great departure from them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC BOX | 1/25/1946 | See Source »

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