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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...flight broke no record; it was not even a success. But the instruments will tell what went wrong. Later Vikings will be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Well," said Lisa with resignation, "it's a leettle difficult when one has never been chez Maxime, but I think the feeling will come." The feeling came with the addition of some falsies.* There were crises over shoes (wrong ankle straps) and gloves (too shiny) and the necklace (too large). But presently the massed lights went on, all shadows withering in the merciless crossplay. (Many models are less than brilliant conversationalists. Says Lisa, an excellent one: "Sometimes I think all these hot lights numb the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Wrong Number. In Los Angeles, Clarence D. Lang, suing for annulment, charged that his wife had deceived him by allowing him to go on thinking that he was her fifth husband when in reality he was her seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Devil in the Flesh. France's latest cinematinee idol, Gérard Philipe, in a story of young love gone wrong (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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