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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both steps meant that the power program was back on the tracks at last. But the delay had been costly. Said Argonne's Director Zinn: "I don't know how far away power is. The only way to find out these things is by work. If you don't work on it, it gets even farther away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elusive Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Testament writers knew very well that [Jesus] was a man, and spoke of Him unequivocally as such . . . Moreover, Christianity does not teach that Jesus was 'a God.' Indeed if we are using language, in a truly Christian way, there is no such entity as 'a God.' There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Is a Proper Name | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...News's Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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