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Word: thems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires matrons sighed with nostalgic rapture. Not in eight years had their radios brought them the rich, persuasive tenor of José Mojica, onetime idol of Latin women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Not all papers took refuge in such "objectivity." Many of them took pains to put their readers on guard. From the first, the New York Times played the story conservatively and headlined it gingerly, as did the Christian Science Monitor. The New York Herald Tribune early warned its readers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Seven-Day Wonder | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Fulton presented evidence from psychologists, juvenile judges and educators that the gory comics (Canadian circulation 5,000,000 a year v. an estimated 145 million in the U.S.) have a bad effect on children, rolled up an impressive backing of parent-teacher associations and clubwomen. The publishers unwittingly did their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Outlawed | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The pleasantly dissonant tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Kindly, 58-year-old Alsatian-born Conductor Munch no longer really had to tell his musicians to relax. In eleven weeks as their first new conductor in 25 years, his musicians were freer of tension than they had been for years. In his first speech to them he had vowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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