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Word: wabash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Hays was Wabash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Byron Price, ex-newsman, ex-Director of Censorship, Wabash College '12, was taken on by President Eric Johnston as vice president of the ex-Hays office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Straw cut before the explosion proved entirely harmless. This coincidence suggested, thought Dr. Evans, that radioactive residues, carried into the upper atmosphere in New Mexico, had fallen with the rain on Illinois. The only other apparent possibility was that the Wabash River, whose water was used in the strawboard factory, carried radioactive silt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Active Straw | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Hold Fire. In Jacksonville, Ill., firemen responding to an alarm at the Wabash railway station had to wait ten minutes for the fire to arrive - in a baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...banks of the Wabash, some 30 miles from Evansville, Indiana, stands New Harmony, an ordinary, none too sprightly town of 1,400 souls, approached by a creaking ferry and boasting a 5-&-io/ store, a saloon or two, and a movie theater. There, some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Report on Utopia | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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