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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most rural towns, America would eat well-homemade fruit cakes, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey with oyster dressing. There would be presents under every Christmas tree. And in the America Christian Church, Mrs. Bertha Hayden held rehearsals all week long for the pageant of "The Coming of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Truman camp responded to this bluff and soldierly statement with alacrity. Speaking with some warmth, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced: "Apparently General Eisenhower is being heckled and embarrassed by stories [from] Key West. I cannot imagine what foundation there is for [them]. The President wants it to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Friendly Exchange | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

For a long time there was a little sign on the door of a small Columbia University office which read: "Professor Jessup on leave until Feb. 1." Someone thoughtfully crossed out "until Feb. 1" when gangling, affable Philip Caryl Jessup, having used up his year's leave as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Professorr Is Out | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

At week's end, 14 days after he had received the selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARMED FORCES | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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