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Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rich Fountain." Had he ever given documents to anyone else? "Yes," said Henry Julian Wadleigh, "on some occasions I gave them to Whittaker Chambers." The courtroom murmured at this buttressing of Chambers' testimony, and Wadleigh seemed to enjoy the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Government Rests | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...documents handed him by Murphy (a move which Murphy evidently made to prevent any implication that Wadleigh, not Hiss, might have stolen the pumpkin papers from the State Department files). The witness said he had never seen them before. Of one, he said: -'. . . it is a sufficiently rich fountain . . . an unusually rich fountain that I would have been interested in had I seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Government Rests | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...early comers had grabbed most of the folding chairs; late arrivals sat on the step around the pink-peony-decked center fountain. By the time energetic Conductor Bales had started to whip his 30 musicians through the first number, the hall was packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Concert in East Garden Court | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...graduate received a five-by-six-inch diploma of sterling silver. The text of each of the four-ounce plates had been photo-engraved, but President Ben H. Parker had to sign them all by hand. He used an electric vibrating scribe, a gadget that looked something like a fountain pen. Said President Parker: "There was nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Diplomas They Get | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Neurologist Harold G. Wolff, and their nine-year-old son in suburban Riverdale, commutes to her Union Square studio five days a week ("Some people say they can't work in the city, but no one ever bothers me here"). She lunches standing up at a nearby soda fountain, watching the people around her and "hoping for something to paint." A tall, brisk woman with braided black hair and attentive brown eyes, Isabel Bishop looks rather like a chemistry teacher in her tattered white working smock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: They Drink & Fly Away | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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