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Word: tippings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Gardiner, former governor of the state of Maine, declared he was highly encouraged by this tip yesterday. He said the family had stopped to eat at the roadhouse several times on route to their estates in Woolrich, Maine. His son might also have gone there, he continued, on route to the ski country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hampshire Roadhouse Janitor Reports Picking Up Gardiner Trail | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...Night was a prewar bestseller, got his U.S. citizenship papers. In San Francisco, best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang's 14-year-old daughter, Yu Hua, got into the U.S. on a visitor's permit-after a slight delay. The local immigration man claimed he had a "confidential" tip that she intended to stay for good, kept her aboard ship for two days & nights, finally took a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Virtuosos | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...blackness before dawn, the Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Menace of the Seas | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Then he set out to confirm the tip. Nobody at the State Department would. Late in the afternoon, Reston got to Jimmy Byrnes himself by telephone, asked him point-blank if he was going to quit. Said Byrnes, sidestepping: "How many times do I have to deny this thing?" Reston kept after him: Did he deny the resignation or not? Byrnes didn't exactly deny it, but managed to sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Scot | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Gustave describes how Kurt, the SS leader, "raised his gun and sighted it carefully at me. I tried not to look, but soon I had to raise my eyes. The tip of the foresight was a fraction below the level of his puckered eye, part of which showed in the aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nazis' Last Stand | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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