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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the city, the quake shook down farmhouses and whole hamlets. Landslides wiped out roads, dammed streams and rivers. By nightfall tragic processions of Indians carrying rude coffins had formed on the roads outside Ambato. All along the way, other Indians with lighted candles kept vigil beside the dead for whom coffins had still to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Death in the Andes | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...relief from common ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. In a study of 70,000 pregnant women, Detroit's Dr. David J. Sandweiss found only one case of active ulcers during gestation. Said one of his patients: "My husband tells me I ought to stay in the family way the whole time, and then my ulcer wouldn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nature's Irony | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

gate, Darling, I remember the way you used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heard about Lilli? | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...idea of doing a new version of Gounod's Faust, she had Hitler in mind: "I wanted to show how Hitler, too, was a Mephistopheles, pulling wires and moving people around just as such men have through history ... I thought the Faust story would be a powerful way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pearls on a String | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Maggie made her mind up about another detail: there must be a shorter and more understandable way to tell it than the lengthy and oversweet Barbier and Carré book to which Gounod had set his music. So she picked out the best of Gounod's arias, commissioned English Poet Stephen Spender to write a narration "more in the spirit of Goethe" that would tell the story clearly and bridge the gaps. Last week, a summer audience in sport shirts and bright silk prints packed the sweltering little white frame playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass, for the first performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pearls on a String | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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