Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be built on the site of the Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, a 6,000 square foot building built in the 1940s, which has long been recognized as being in need of replacement, Zewinski said...
...children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors at a major publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, that next month it will bring out her exuberant memoirs, The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life. "I'm the seventh child, so I know I'm lucky," says Baxter...
After my great-uncle survived Auschwitz and came to America in the late 1940s, he got a job selling shoes in Braintree, Mass. He had been a lawyer in Germany, and when the owner of the shoe shop saw that his new salesman was able and educated, he offered him the position of store manager. But my great-uncle declined. He said it was enough for him to be in America and to be able to sell shoes. And so he did, until the day he died...
...Peddle-pushers are casual women s slack which reach to the mid-calf. The term came into existence in the 1940s in America...
Heinlein also forecast a 21st century America seized by evil right-wing Christian fundamentalists plugged into cunning propaganda networks. These way-out notions of Heinlein's were composed in the 1940s; he probably thought he was being very provocative, out there and outrageous...