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Word: chews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...major difficulties of the Council, according to the Dean, are "its tendency to bite off more projects than it can chew and improper picking of personel to execute its plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bender Greets Term's First Council | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

Bombs & Bombast. The campaign began just before the monsoon. Dhoti-clad Calcuttans left their steaming houses, clustered in the streets to drink lime squash, chew pan (made from the betel nut), and talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Cloud | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

This is probably the main conservation problem. As long as nobody bothers them, Congressmen will go right on supporting the sheep-owners' demands to chew the life from the grazing lands. As long as nobody bothers them Congress will go merrily on, allowing the nation's resources to float down the drain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sheep, Soil, Good Sense | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...high-school faculties, still dubious about mixed classes, are trying to let students make their own decisions-even to chewing gum. One teacher, Tadao Naka-nami, caught a boy chewing gum and bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report Card from Kyoto | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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