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Word: breaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is . . . between employers and workers a reciprocal bond . . . which only blind and unreasonable despotism would attempt to break. Employers and employees are not irreconcilable antagonists . . . They eat at the same table because . . . they eat and live out of the net national profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Sermon to Capitalists | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into radio harness. (Variety seconded NBC's judgment: "Potentially the boys have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...people's cigars, whisper secrets, shout non sequiturs at the mike, fight for its possession, spoil each other's jokes, order the customers to laugh, discuss them cattily when they don't-and altogether are apt to ramble on for two hours or more without a break. "We know how we're gonna get on," says Jerry, "but sometimes we wonder how we're gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Blue is expected to clean up in almost every running event on the flat. Sprinter Jon Spivak and half miler Captain Dave Hamblett are the only Crimson runners who might break Yale's anticipated series of firsts, according to Jaakko...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Track Team Hopes For 60 Points Against Yale | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...such peculiar feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over. The alarm bell sounded. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

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