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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Dr. Peckham reported on follow-up studies made during two summers with lifeguards at Atlantic City. What he found convinced him that overexposure of the eyes to bright sunlight creates an alarming problem.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Darker the Better | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Clotted along the route of the procession, the citizens of Sheffield began hurling stones and brickbats. Hooligans rushed out to beat God's ex-wrestler with clubs and try to pull him off his horse. He did not retaliate. "Anything for Jesus," he called out hoarsely, and rode on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

There are 105 Men's Social Service Centers in the U.S., where the army starts its salvageable wrecks on the road back. Manhattan's center is a seven-story warehouse building near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The army's war on human misery in the U.S. is directed from an up-to-date, $2,500,000, twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Was there anything salvageable in such wreckage? William Booth had told his followers: "We are moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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