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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...keep the coils from blowing up, Kapitza cooled them with liquid helium (four degrees or less above absolute zero). He designed his own helium liquefier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From an Old Sketch | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

When constituted, the new "North American Council of Churches" will carry on and correlate throughout the U. S. and Canada (with many a friendly contact elsewhere around the globe) the work now done by the boards to be merged into it. Its four main divisions will be departments on faith and life, Christian education, missions at home, abroad. No mere federation of federations, it will get its powers directly from its constituent churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Dean's Newest Job | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Clear and positive are Dean Weigle's views on the Church's responsibilities. He considers worship, evangelism, education and community welfare in that order the four primary functions of the Church. His views on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Dean's Newest Job | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Earl of Emsworth. In the course of some 40 years of nonsense, the multiple Wodehouse nitwits and their overlapping, interlacing misadventures have come to revolve more & more dizzily around Blandings. Hence only confirmed Wodehousians are sure if the stories are one great inspiration or several. Experts incline to recognize four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Wodehouse is allowed to write three letters, four post cards monthly. He is said to be getting all the working supplies he needs, to be writing a novel. What the novel is about Prisoner Wodehouse did not tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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