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Word: thems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighty minutes later Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: The Price You Pay | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Then the jurors-all twelve of them women-retired. They were back, after less than two hours of deliberation, with a verdict that stunned the court: not guilty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOM'EN: Darkness in Philadelphia | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week G-Man Hoover disposed of DeVoto with a passing blow ("I do not care to dignify Mr. DeVoto's compilation of half truths, inaccuracies, distortions, and misstatements") and swung on the editors. In a letter to them, published in the current Harper's, he asked:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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