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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the big bomber, Lieut. Colonel John Grable Jr. remembered later, he had passed the ditching order back through the intercom: "It wasn't the nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rescue at Sea | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

As the Haida arrived at Bermuda the next afternoon, cheering islanders put out in small boats to welcome the destroyer. Newsmen crowded around to hear about the saga. "What did we talk about?" repeated Grable. "Well-'will you please move over and give me some room?' Only we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rescue at Sea | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

It was a hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: For an Old Debt | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Just in time for the thoughtful gift buyer, a Manhattan store last week staged a fashion show for dogs. Solemn, patient hounds and other beasts of impeccable pedigree paraded the latest nonsense in trappings: an evening coat sprinkled with sequins (modeled by a French poodle), banker's grey herringbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Christmas on 57th Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

" 'You are evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Battle of the Fables | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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