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Word: assets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another asset we found at Harvard is the historical approach to Religion. We feel this is the soundest approach, as it prevents hasty crystallization, and permits a critical appraisal of all points of view, including NeoOrthodoxy and "Humanism" which as systems of religious thought cut across denominational lines, but neither of which should characterize our School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...show's biggest asset is pint-sized Nancy Walker (Best Foot Forward, On the Town), who, as class-conscious Yetta Samovar, shows all her likable toughness, sharp timing and comic verve. But Nancy Walker's biggest asset is her way with a good brassy ballad, which she chants in a good brassy way, and Barefoot Boy allots her exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Boomerang | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...fabulous wealth of the Arabian Nights. The ocean contains a minimum of 26 billion barrels (1¼ times the proved reserves of the U.S.), a maximum of 150 billion barrels. How much is this worth? In cash, enough to make a hundred Rockefellers; as a military asset, as nations count, it is beyond price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Blue-Chip Game | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power to enchant, she has in great abundance an asset Garbo never had: earthy sexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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