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Word: whiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Chug-Chug, the cleanup man, Williams stayed in full public view while skirting the intricate web of Navy bureaucracy. He never drew a paycheck. He made enough money for shaving gear and an occasional movie by setting up pins in the bowling alley. Sometimes, he gave a helping hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chug-Chug | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

For the second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean Sweep | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

To help while away off-duty hours with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh got a present from home: his yacht, the Cowslip, which arrived in Malta by aircraft carrier.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Can Happen | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Maybe Not. Despite all the impressive tests, some doctors were still dubious. The neohetramine tests were perhaps too perfect: most men & women do not get as much rest and will not dose themselves as carefully and regularly as the selected patients. Some doctors pointed to the danger of overdosing; e.g...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Over the Counter | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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