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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same methods ... It will not be necessary to give details . . . Were the ballots for the election of the Volkskongress not made exactly according to the pattern of the former National Socialists? There was a question printed in bold type which was difficult to be answered except in one way: 'yes.' . . . The whole election was based on internal dishonesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hour to Speak | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...felt it was time for television to get out of the little tap-dancing acts," said Phillips Lord last week. "I thought: let's do it stark naked, the way they do in Italian films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: People's Faces | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...idea was simple indeed. The way to stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Ending | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...show can probably look forward to a profitable run. But Lord will no longer have anything to do with it. Back in his early days in radio, he sometimes wrote and directed as many as four shows at once. Today, as soon as a show is under way, he leases it to anyone who wants it-a network, advertising agency or another producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: People's Faces | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The 1,001 Partners | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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