Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Truman Doctrine has checked the Communist drive in the stronger half of the world, the Reds last week were busy with the next best thing-digging their trenches in the weaker half of the world they have held since the war's end. Some of the trenches...
Since that time America's appetite for scientific news has been virtually unquenchable, and Leonard and his researcher, Dorothy Slavin Potts, have been busy as bird dogs trying to satisfy it. Their department has always operated on the belief that its readers are intelligently interested in informed reports of...
Only after he left Seattle did his crowds begin to fall off. In Portland, Ore., he drew less than half capacity at the civic auditorium. In Bismarck, N.Dak., only 2,500 busy farmers showed up out of an expected 5,000.
The Man in the Pit. Once they were strung out around the big brick-&-asphalt saucer, the drivers had not the foggiest notion of their relative position in the race. They relied, as speedway drivers must, on the mechanics in the pit for information, pace instructions, fuel, repairs. Unlike the...
The men in the pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening...