Word: breakdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this breakdown the morgue's 16 research librarians, each of whom is a specialist in a specific field (Foreign News, National Affairs, etc.), can fill a TIME writer's request for background material, or check a fact, in a hurry. They get about 5,000 requests a month. For a recent issue of TIME they were asked to determine (among other things): the wage rates of natives in the Solomon Islands; the form of poetry most similar to the rhumba rhythm; major U.S. cities controlled by Republican mayors; the number of U.S. synthetic rubber plants that have...
...breakdown of the enrollment reveals wives of Harvard students, representatives from other colleges, and 'Cliffe alumnae and undergraduates. Twenty seven of this number are quartered in Whitman Hall and Henry House...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...
...Baldwin's approximate breakdown (in thousands): Germany, 700; Rumania, 390; Poland, 325; Hungary, 260; Korea, 200; Bulgaria, 150; Austria, 105; Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Iran, up to 10 (probably NKVD...
...Striving '30s. The decade after 1931 brought for artists much grimmer obstacles, more massive threats than the mere fate of not being understood. This decade made it seem that "the West" (civilization) faced a breakdown. The young strove to achieve large and general, "responsible" solutions...