Word: axing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine is not founded to promulgate prejudices, liberal or conservative. The magazine is one of news, not argument, and verges on the controversial only where it is necessary to point out what that news means. 'To keep men well-informed' -that, first and last, is the only axe this magazine has to grind...
...deepened. The world TIME reports in 1943 is a world whose knaves and good men, fools and heroes play their parts on a stage whose backdrop is literally life-and-death. In reporting this grave new world TIME still hews to its original line: we have not changed our axe but sharpened it. With 55 writers, 58 researchers, 22 branch offices and 201 correspondents all over the world, obviously we should be able to do a much better job for you than our four full-time editors and their ten part-time assistants could hope to do back...
...looks forward, therefore, to having more human liberty on this continent, not less. To this end he may wish to make radical changes in the political and economic structure of America. Like Thomas Jefferson, when he abolished primogeniture, a citizen of this republic may today wish to swing an axe against the root of privilege. But he will do so only that a greater number of citizens may be free with in large limits, free to carry the responsibilities as well as to enjoy the benefits of modern civilization. It is because we have come to realize the confusing complexities...
Despite the axe of wartime necessity which hangs over the head of intercollegiate sports, basketball coach Earl Brown will, in a few days, approach the H.A.A. with the proposal that Harvard ho the first Eastern university to experiment with the "crow's nest" system of officiating, a much discussed innovation from out of the West...
...good one. In recent years the superiority of the New York Yankees has been one of the firmest beliefs in American thought. People had faith in the Yankees as they had faith in their folk lore: Joe DiMaggio's bat was the modern equivalent of Paul Bunyan's axe, Joe McCarthy in the Stadium was like U. S. Grant was Vicksburg. Now the idol has fallen, and millions have become cynical. If the Yankees can lose, what can you believe...