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...sure way for us to lose face before the free world is for us to sink to the level of the enemies of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Plumb Angry. In Baltimore, William Sampson ripped the kitchen sink from the wall, threw it at his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...pride was hurt, but Golfis lived in peace with his neighbor until last month, when a vein of water was discovered under their land. In Greece's dry, sun-parched hills, where water is as precious as life, it was a great event; Psofios announced he would sink a well. Old Golfis, who was too poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Milk & Water | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Kind. In Sidcup, England, Mrs. Annie Skinner willed to Norman Butler, who had done her plumbing free, her bathtub, sink and water heater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Catherine Drinker Bowen's John Adams and the American Revolution, a thorough, vivaciously readable fictional biography of "Old Sink or Swim," polishes up lackluster John to his proper historical brightness. The result is a handsome illumination of the first 40 years of John's life, which were both the most exciting and the least known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Lackluster | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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