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...Reader Laybourn, TIME'S thanks for fleshing out an anecdotal wraith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...action. Since the State Department was good enough to propose giving away money it does not have, it should certainly be glad to reveal how it expects to perform this minor miracle. Revelation of such a feat would prove to hungry Europeans that Kris Kringle is more than a wraith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rabbit and the Silk Hat | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

...once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Super-Colossal | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...wraith of famine forged ahead over the earth, a puffing, overfed nation reddened at the boos swelling from worldwide grandstands. Was the U.S. really trying? Was anybody doing better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Tragic Gap | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...during the War found out soon enough that the place wasn't the same. They looked for a five column daily CRIMSON, and saw in its place the Service News; they looked for the Advocate and found nothing; every-where the once vigorous mass of undergraduate activity was a wraith, stuttering along, supported by a skeletal student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activities Fade, Die as War Hits College; General Revival Movement Now Underway | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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