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Word: untill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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was "Typhoid Mary" Mallon, reputed to have infected 57 people, three of whom died. She was carted off in 1907 by court order to New York City's North Brother Island, held there off & on until she died of a stroke in 1938.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Typhoid Marys? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Mr. Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut had no notion at first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By & For the Public | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Growling | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Almost any topnotch businessman could have qualified for the big title and the $65,000-a-year salary just by getting along with The Boss. But among candidates for the presidency of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. that one qualification was rare indeed. After cross-grained old Sewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flowers from Avery | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Chairman Sewell Avery finally filled the job with an insider. He was Stuart Scoble Ball, 45, the only experienced senior officer (secretary until last month, when he also became a vice president) who had remained true to Avery and, up to now, had always got along with him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flowers from Avery | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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