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Word: tilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: THE STATESMAN | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Columnist Hal Boyle urged Mrs. H. to take a year-long trip around the world and see everything. The New York Daily News thought there was a better way: "Come to New York . . . and just stay here till the sands run out . . . There is next to nothing [that] you can't find . . . even dude ranches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advice for Mrs. H. | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tombola Night | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...soon after he graduated from Brooklyn's James Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alphabet Song | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...long, a woman asked, might the visitation last? Charles Williams answers, through one of his characters: "Why, perhaps a thousand years, those of the millenium before the Judgment. On the other hand, since that kind of thousand years is asserted to be a day, perhaps till tomorrow morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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