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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treason trial, held in Budapest last month. Said Tito: "They prepared that trial according to some method which they have. You saw that everything went as it should. I do not know how one gets people to try to accuse themselves as much as possible, but it is certain that some monstrous method is used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Some Monstrous Method | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...voice on the other end was suave: "Even if one accepts, tacitly, you understand, a certain measure of responsibility. it remains impermissible to speak of French fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Long-Distance Call . .. | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Michigan's defense code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...time, public taste and a certain original insouciance on Shakespeare's part have conspired against Twelfth Night. Particularly in the theater, the strands of its complicated plot can come to seem like chains. With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...always does, however. And one thing is certain; no matter what the game's score, the band always wins. You can get good odds on that, and the odds have been getting better for 30 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odds On | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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