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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Brick. As soon as the news got back to Gold Bridge, a tiny town on the Bridge River, prospectors for miles around got the itch. Some were gnarled veterans of the Gold Rush. Some were tenderfeet. Only one had a Geiger counter, and none knew anything about radioactive ores. That did not stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Moose Pasture | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...tight schedule had forced Forrestal to give up the idea of unveiling the plaque, he still expected to have time for a speech. But the boat that brought him across the St. Lawrence was late, and then Forrestal spent too long looking at antiques in one of the town's historic houses. In the end, he bolted his lunch and hustled for his plane without making the speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Time for Talk | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is the Church Failing Our Youth?"-discussed by Minister-Miler Gil Dodds and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade for the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Source Material | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...never afterward forgives him for not tumbling. She high-pressures her guileless husband into a political career and into sabotaging his old friend's political prospects. She unearths and exploits the Wilde-Baxter love affair. She is clearly not the kind of woman who is useful around any town, and in the long run people find her out. After that, they live, more or less happily, ever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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