Word: agee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time in the air age a pilots' strike grounded a major U.S. airline. It involved 1,100 members of the exclusive Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.), forced Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. to cancel flights over 28,270 miles of foreign and domestic routes...
...Lindsay rose to suggest that some P.W.s should even be encouraged to stay and marry. "The advantages in adding to our labor forces thousands of industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I am one of those people who believe that it is a great misfortune for women to be unable to fulfill their biological function because of a shortage of males...
Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...
...locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people--and for the age that was waiting before--the Harvard Stadium was constructed...
Hutchins had told the assembly of scholars, "If we are not all killed in the next few years (of the atomic age) we will all be bored to death. The Universities will be obsolete if they do not grasp the opportunities to make leisure time worthwhile...