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Word: wilsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same night a complaint against a man answering the identical description had been phoned to Central Square Police headquarters from an Annex sophomore residence at six Acacias st. by house mother Mrs. Brayton Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Man at Large | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hello & Goodbye | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Last week, the. press was promised another respite. Thanks to improved domestic production of newsprint, said Board of Trade President Harold Wilson, circulations would be unfrozen Jan. 1, and the papers could add two extra pages (four for the tabloids) three days a week. This time, the press hoped the extra rations would last longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Extra Rations | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...have any truck with her. (Says one: "The woman is constitutionally unable to fit harmoniously into a group effort.") Mostly, these people are merely unwilling to follow the one tested formula for getting along with Tallulah: give in to her. The formula seems to work for Producer John C. Wilson; he also put on her last show, Jean Cocteau's The Eagle Has Two Heads, a bad play that tempted Tallulah because it gave her a 17-minute monologue and a chance to do a queenly death scene tumbling down a flight of red-carpeted stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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