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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emissary from the isle of Stromboli named Monroe E. McDonald landed in Manhattan to tell an anxious nation the true story about Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italy's gifted Director Roberto Rossellini. To Hearst's Manhattan Gossipist Cholly Knickerbocker, Lawyer McDonald confided that Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, was a strong, masterful man, to whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Though Coffman plans no radical departures from the tried & true methods of legal education, his five-man faculty will "update the students on the new kinds of law which have become important-administrative law, taxation and labor law." Says he: "We believe in the blocking and tackling school of education-good fundamental training . . . We want to turn out men who will become leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Los Angeles Premiere | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Money-Changers | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...this will be a daring departure from his tried & true radio formulas, but King has thought it through: "For radio, music is the medium in which you dream. For television, music is the medium in which you dream-with embellishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Embellished Waltz | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...bureau keeps a file of 120,000 companies which it uses as a sample for measuring overall employment. During, and after, the war BLS failed to adjust its totals for new industries or industries that had declined in importance. Future estimates, hopes BLS, will be good and true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Confession & Confusion | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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