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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be impossible to continue giving them so many considerations here, they will be submitted to an acclimation treatment, in the full meaning of the word, during which they will have to become accustomed to making fewer demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Of Mules & Men | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Marcovaldi had of course not heard a word, but could see that there was trouble. He proposed the formation of the "Clock Dispute Settling Committee." Its decision was that the priest would get the bills, approved by the Clock Committee, then would pay the amount of the bill over to the Clock Dispute Settling Committee, which would hand it over to the Citizens' Committee, which would hand it over to Rocchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Howey would say not a word about what was afoot at the Herald. "Just watch the paper, that's all," said Shainmark. Last week it was worth watching once more; the front page looked like the result of an explosion in a type foundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shakeup in Chicago | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Moon and his fellow physicists are still hoping that the AEC (or Congress) will eventually tell them where they stand. Until they get the word they can stand safely only in classes in U.S. schools, before classes of U.S. citizens, teach only what the Atomic Energy Commission marks unclassified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Snigger from Mother. About an hour before the mutes arrived, Mother's will was read. But Mother, "with her fondness for underdone beef and breezy unpleasantness," was to have the last word. Edna was to inherit on one condition: she must be earning ?5 a week within a month of the funeral. In her whole life, Edna had never earned anything but a snigger from Mother. But as the family smiled, Edna felt a quiet pleasure in her new-found sense of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun at a Funeral | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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