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Word: thirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon G. Johnson hung up his dentist's drill, got a bite to eat and headed for Medinah Temple, Chicago headquarters of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Doc made a beeline for the third floor where the Temple's Oriental band was gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Married. Greer Garson, 40, redhaired, green-eyed cinemactress (Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie),; and Colonel E. E.("Buddy") Fogelson, 48, Texas rancher-millionaire; she for the third time, he for the second; in Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Burt Lancaster, 35, cinema hard guy (The Killers, Brute Force), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Elizabeth. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...summer house, saw him climb the steps, and heard "four small, dull, dark explosions." Sheean nearly fainted, fell against the garden wall, and after some minutes realized that his eyes were scalding with tears-"more acid than I had known"-and that blisters had suddenly appeared on the third and fourth fingers of his right hand. "How could such things be?" he asked himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the Grail | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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