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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain people of the U.S. Though men were clubbed and shot at, though thousands were already out of work, the nation's industrial troubles hadn't yet really begun to hurt and the issues were hard to understand (see below). Besides, most people were confident that somehow or other everything would be peacefully settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Difficult & Distant | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Desire to Conform | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

What no one-including Bargy, her husband and her friends-was prepared for was the astonishingly tender look which TV's normally harsh eye gives Jeanne at the piano. A tall, earnest girl with no pretensions to beauty, Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Fill-in | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...fine legal mind, famed in Canadian courts for its ability to arrive at sense-making compromises, was at work trying to find middle way. St. Laurent was confident that it could be found. "We have been up against tough situations before," he said. "The Western World has always managed somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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