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Word: switzerland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inconspicuous Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do You Get It? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Germanic Languages students will probably work under the American Council on Study in Switzerland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Votes In Credit for Foreign Study | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...home ("The Little Barn") near Lausanne, Switzerland, Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 25, wife of deposed King Michael of Rumania, posed contentedly with her three-weeks-old Princess Margrethe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Grand Tour | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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