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Word: busful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth says she is quite certain that she and Bill will be married-someday. She refuses to be depressed by the fact that he is the vice president of a bus line in Florida, while her career is in Hollywood. They have not decided where to live, she says, but Bill is looking for a house in Miami, while she is scouting around California. "I've seen several houses," she chirps, "and they're all just the darlingest things." Mother smiles, and watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...prizes (roundtrip plane rides to the North Pole and Venezuela) were nontransferable and Noone was afraid that if he should go ("I'd rather go to Richmond on a bus"), he would have to pay income tax on the cash value of the journeys. Deciding against $1,000 in knitwear, Noone asked the manufacturer for a cash settlement. He was offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Giveaway Fadeaway | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Like bartenders and bus drivers, movie theater ushers occasionally have their troubles with the bothersome fringe of humanity. But they do not lack for sound advice. The cinema trade organ Boxoffice has culled a few helpful hints for ushers from a manual prepared in Ohio by Warner Bros, for its theaters. Examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way, Please | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...stood with Mrs. Roosevelt against "religious control of schools which are paid for by the taxpayers' money." But he was also certainly against parochial school children being excluded from milk rations, bus transportation, immunization programs, and the use of non-religious textbooks provided by federal funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Day in the Lion's Mouth | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...federal funds for U.S. education, but unlike the education bill already passed by the Senate, specifically excluded private and parochial schools from its benefits. The Barden bill was limited strictly to such direct education aid as textbooks, teachers' salaries, equipment. It did not provide for anyone the milk, bus transportation and medicine which Cardinal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Day in the Lion's Mouth | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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