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Word: add (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best gag writers in the business, Bergen follows two heavyweight (Charles Laugh ton, Orson Welles), one lightweight (Rudy Vallee) lecturer, imported by U.C.L.A. to add a touch of mundaneity to the English curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time For Comedy | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Crimson insists on referring to ALCOA as a monopoly, it would seem only fair that it should add that a Federal Judge, Francis G. Caffey, after presiding over the anti-trust proceedings against the company, has ruled that it was not a monopoly, and thus allow the readers the opportunity of choosing their own authority. Roy Potter Perry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/7/1942 | See Source »

With more than 100 persons already signed up, the Harvard Interrace Council is starting an intensified drive tomorrow to add as many more names as possible to its petitions for Federal Antilynching legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Started to Get Names For Anti-Lynching Petition | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

...great industry, is limited, strangely enough, "by the unparalleled efficiency of the airplane itself." The airplane can go 420,000 miles per year more than any other transport vehicle on land or sea,-which means you can get along with fewer of them. Warner figures that we can add 15,000 stops to the existing 40 (which would bring 90 per cent of the population within an hour's drive of an airport), and sink a million dollars into passenger planes to handle the commercial business with Europe, Asia, South America, and within the states. But even so, that would...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: BRASS TACKS | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...names of General Mud, General Winter and General Dissatisfaction the Nazis had to add General Louse, a major enemy because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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