Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teenagers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music" [TiME, March...
...build the pressures which blew the lid off OPA and the ceiling off prices. Government statistics showed that Big Labor's weekly income had more than kept pace with prices since 1941 (see chart below). Big Labor had won these gains at the expense of unorganized workers, old-age pensioners, and professional and white-collar workers...
After coming here at the age of 25 for his Nieman year, Ashmore entered the Army, emerging as a lieutenant-colonel. When the "News" was bought last year by Thomas L. Robinson '26, he became associate editor, and since then has been a leader in liberal movements in the south...
...familiar gag that "Only in Philadelphia would nearly everybody read the Bulletin" but there is not much truth to it. The Bulletin may be unspectacular, but it is a good newspaper. Lately, it has strangely refused to act its age. It recently underwent a drastic face-lifting, peeled off the old-fashioned headline types in favor of clean, ultra-modern fonts. Traditionally Republican, it has nevertheless been staunchly pro-Lilienthal, and has given Harry Truman some kindly back-pats. Since it bought the liberal Record, (TIME, Feb. 10), it has had an embarrassing wealth of columns, now prints Tom Stokes...
...decrepit beings in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. They were born with a mark on their foreheads and supported at public expense in the Kingdom of Luggnagg after they reached the age...