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Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people [in France] normally behave." But nobody knew better than royalty that the stern voice of Scottish conscience could not be entirely ignored. It was not likely to happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Regrettable | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Group tutorial may be the answer for a great many departments, and some of them have already experimented in this departure. Individual assistance for junior and senior honors candidates is essential in other places. What should not be allowed to happen is the insidiously silent junking of all but a ghost of the system that has occurred, for example, in the Economics Department. Only action by the administration or the faculty as a whole can save the best aspects of tutorial and rebuild them into an integrated system. It is such action that is called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...thin, a large mole guards her left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens to her on the screen might easily happen to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shopgirl's Dream | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...evening after dark, follow a Berlin policeman on his route. For some time nothing out of the ordinary will happen; he waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...than a mere thriller, it would be quibbling to point out that a few patches are hard to swallow. One agent manages to decode a message while sitting in the back seat of a moving auto, at night. After betraying his government, Gouzenko seems astonished to hear what will happen to his family and his wife's (Gene Tierney), although he has lived in Soviet Russia most of his life, and is a seasoned professional agent. His reasons for changing sides are also rather thinly explored ; and some of the top spies are such blatant fiends that the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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