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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many people are under the impression that just any man can plank down his money and become a Mason. Well, it's not true . . . Many famous and prominent men have tried many times to join a Masonic Lodge, but have failed . . . We never go out and solicit members, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...present job of keeping TIME'S editors up-to-date on Denver and the Rocky Mountain area is as varied as Beshoar's extensive (859,009 sq. mi.) territory. It requires a regional expert's knowledge of many fields : mining, livestock and oil, for instance, as well as local state politics. The Denver bureau's growing news file includes such stories as the Goethe Festival at Aspen, Colo. (TIME, July 11), the cow that Sot stuck in the silo (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...nobody wanted unity on Scott's terms, and for the moment, the committeemen were less interested in the Democrats than they were in the control of their own party. The old, uneasy Taft-Stassen alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Change of Command | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

After weeks of lurching about and tooting its horn in alarm, Harry Flood Byrd's sleek, well-oiled political machine rolled to victory last week in Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: Battle for Richmond | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Such negative virtues are not quite enough. Miss Foley's contributors are earnest and well-intentioned, but nothing emerges boldly or sharply from their work. Lacking individuality or even eccentricity, most of the stories settle in the reader's mind like a grey blur. Though young in years, the writers seem old and weary in spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Crop | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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