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Word: whiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On one occasion, Gleysteen was arrested and charged with "signaling out to sea with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Behind the Bamboo Curtain | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

In New Orleans, it took people a while to get over the shock of Tulane's 46-7 drubbing by the Irish. Then everybody seemed to get mad at once. Coach Henry Frnka told friends he would cancel the scheduled 1950 game if he could. Last week Tulane announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Irish | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Don Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Word from the Wise | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

That attraction, advertised in facsimiles of century-old handbills, was just one of the highlights of a show that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Divided Land. But while life was evolving, the earth was heating up because of the radioactivity of its stony ingredients. The stony core got hotter and so did the stone-iron mixture. Eventually the outer mixture got soft enough for the iron to trickle down toward the center. Its "fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Land from the Depths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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