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Word: resorted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Complete calm prevails throughout the country." Rural shooting stopped. Business perked up as merchants saw a chance to get the coffee crop to market after all. Many bogotanos went down the mountainsides to resort hotels for a holiday weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Revolution of the Right | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

This week, having cleared the innocent, the Times was trying to find out who was guilty. From the state attorney general, the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, Reporter Guthman extracted a promise to search the Canwell committee's sealed records for the missing resort register. Snapped Canwell: "If you think the register has been suppressed, go find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...back as 1936 surgeons were working out a way to treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobelmen | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Seeks Soft Shoe Man | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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