Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Eve many years ago Scrooge promised the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that he would live in the Past, the Present, and the Future-and not shut out the lessons that they teach...
...Past-this Christmas issue of TIME, with its reports on how Americans are moving into the Christmas of 1948, may serve to remind you of some of TIME'S Christmas stories of other years...
...unit voting (i.e., of giving a state's entire block of electoral votes to the candidate with a plurality in that state) always raised the possibility that.a candidate might get a plurality of the popular vote and still lose the election. It had happened three times in the past. Unit voting also canceled the effectiveness of minority voters, encouraged the one-party system in the South, and gave big states undue power at political conventions...
...brain child of Houston's Ray C. Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. past the Federal Power Commission in Washington, the rest was smooth sailing...
...animal named Raintree County, which was hailed by critics as a monumental attempt and then floated away in an embarrassed silence. Silence was the kindest treatment of Remembrance Rock, Carl Sandburg's large, muddled, impassioned effort to learn lessons for the future from a study of the American past...