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Word: broth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only between meal eating encouraged is the crackers and milk served at 10 p.m. nightly during exam period. Fifteen years ago, however, hot soup was passed out during the middle of exams. The tradition was permanently discontinued by the harrassed professors. They found that spilled broth and ?what? broads seemed to spoil the austere atmosphere of the exam hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12,300 Eggs, 3 Tons Ham Kept 'Cliffe Salted in '46 | 4/12/1950 | See Source »

Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: No Clarion Cry | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...diphtheria in October. After that the disease had spread from tepee to tepee; three victims had already died. With antitoxin and penicillin strapped to their bodies to keep the drugs from freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined 52 patients a day. For ten days, broth or hot brandy and sugar was the only nourishment many of the Indians got. Later, more drugs were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane and food was hauled in. In the windowless, filthy hovels, modern nursing techniques were impossible. Said Nurse Bond: "It was not the easiest thing to look professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Choking Death | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Song (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a professional-looking revue that uses an amateur-night technique. All sorts of people have "entered" individual songs and sketches in the show; and whether from too many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revues in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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