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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more serious was the new law "to regulate political activities." By its terms, sponsors of a new party (the old opposition parties are already discredited) must register, then wait three years for recognition-or well past the 1952 presidential elections. Even then a court can refuse to approve the party if the judge (a Peronista, of course) decides that it endangers "social peace" or incites to violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Up to Da+e | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine and earlier in the summer he's had in Minnesota a fishing trip, we're told. Together the three jaunts lasted well over two months, ample, even for a freshman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Handwriting Analyst Muriel Stafford considered the evidence and announced that Joe DiMaggio "combines a flair for the dramatic with care and accuracy regarding detail ... a writer who does things well, calmly, doesn't like to be rushed" (see SPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Watchful Brain. Karsch's simple safety screen has worked well, but recently he got a better gadget: an "Impact Predictor," which can tell in advance just where each rocket will hit. Two observers track the rocket with telescopes. The information from the stations is fed automatically into an electronic brain (analogue computer) which can solve complicated equations almost instantaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Man | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...decided to select the best stories in the Old Testament, cut them down for easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old Testament Faces | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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