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Word: warne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ein Tywysoges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...record-breaking 5,800 graduates. The effort almost knocked them flat on their backs. Last week many of the schools, admitting that they were in serious financial distress, issued an urgent S.O.S. The presidents of 19 universities embracing the nation's top medical schools* solemnly declared: "We warn our fellow citizens that without their prompt and generous aid, our medical schools . . . cannot be expected to safeguard the future health of American citizens and their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Orchids Without Coal | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt had no more bitter foe at home, he had no more ardent supporter abroad. Douglas was one of the first to warn against the rise of Hitlerism. He went back into Government service, first as Lend-Lease expediter in London, then as Deputy War Shipping Administrator. As London's News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Good Risk | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...more cautiously. Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg swung their weight behind Finance Chairman Eugene Milliken's proposal for a $4.5 billion cut. Their most potent argument: the effect of a larger cut on U.S. military strength (see The Nation). President pro tem Vandenberg took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms in a sling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...week for the fainthearted. Donald R. Richberg, onetime NRA brain-truster, rose in Philadelphia to warn the nation that unless labor was put in its place, the U.S. would be driven "deeper & deeper into a political war which may become a civil war." And Bandleader Art Mooney, pondering what he had seen from the bandstand, reported that wild dancing to hot music was ruining the shapes of American girls. He noted their "piano legs, wide bottoms, thick waists, and hefty bosoms," feared an even uglier future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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