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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...steady stream of Korean women threaded their way through huge stacks of flour, rice and millet, emerged with 50 to 100-lb. sacks strapped to their backs or carefully balanced on their heads. There would be some later disappointment. Some of the women had taken their sacks from the wrong part of the warehouse and were heading jubilantly home to the kitchen loaded down with fertilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Like a Fire Drill | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...John's males take to the new idea? At a special meeting of the Student Polity (St. John's for student council), Moderator (president) Stewart Washburn spoke up: "We accept women. There is nothing wrong with women as such. But they are going to necessitate a great number of annoying practical adjustments." St. John's was making a beginning at such adjustments by assigning one of its four dormitories for the use of the expected newcomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After 254 Years | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...design a radio coil. I make it with sweat and blood and it's the ne plus ultra coil. Then I give it to a producer and tell him to make it just so. Then that bum makes it wrong. So I get into the coil business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tuner Titan | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has tried to present truthfully the facts of the Labenow case. It apologizes to Miss Cummings for the wrong implication of its story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRATUM | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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