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Word: thompsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food situation is just as bad. Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Hard Times on Skid Row | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...natural desire to show that poets and religion have been on speaking terms in the past, mediocre British Poet Alfred Noyes has collected an anthology, The Golden Book of Catholic Poetry (Lippincott; $3.50). In it readers will find such hardy perennials as Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, Francis Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poetry of Faith | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Before he cabled the Yudin speech, TIME'S Moscow correspondent Craig Thompson showed it to a Russian acquaintance, who asked: "Where is the news in any of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: What Is News? | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...tough is a nut? Plenty tough, says the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Two Institute physiologists wondered how much muscle the baby plant needs to work its way out of the nutshell; they tapped an assortment of mixed nuts, applied hydraulic pressure through the bore and took careful readings as the shells cracked open. Some of the findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crack! | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Peter H. Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

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