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Word: actually (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lynching, 31 were charged with a blanket warrant for murder. Taking no chances, Greenville's sheriff clapped 30 of them into jail, kept a cell ready for the 31st. Bail was set at $2,500. Among the 31, but not yet identified, police were sure they had the actual trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: New Twist | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Kettering theory paid off handsomely. The Council received more than 200,000 notions. Most came from impractical dreamers, screwballs and ignorant well-wishers. But some 5,000 ideas were promising enough to be turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator. ¶ A long-lasting walkie-talkie battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Calling All Crackpots | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...assure authenticity in creating the atmosphere, it is possible that members of the east may attend some actual union meetings so as to observe first hand how labor affairs are conducted, Shwartz added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spectators Will Take Parts in HDC's 'Lefty' | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

From my observation I would say that the average layman at a denominational assembly is heard about as often and felt about as potently as the average freshman member of Congress. ... In the actual business of determining where the church shall stand, what it shall do, the preachers -by virtue of their acquaintance with each other, their familiarity with the proceedings, their training and their capacity to get excited about ecclesiastical and theological obfuscations, and their facility in public speech-are the works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Forward, Laymen | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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