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Word: curts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally John L.'s phone would jangle with news of another victory. Big John would dictate to a press aide a curt communique which concluded with a half-hopeful, half-commanding "More tonnage will sign." The press covered U.M.W. like a military HQ. Almost every night last week, U.M.W. was able to report to the newsmen that another company or two had agreed to boost pay (from $14.05 to $15 a day) and increase royalties for the miners' welfare fund (from 20? to 35? a ton). Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Communiqu | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...President William Green as "the able Mr. Green," and to propose that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to put up nine-tenths of the money). Last week after he had gotten his answer (a curt no thanks), the mineworkers' president got off another letter to Bill Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sincerely Yours | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...gift of $300,000 by Curt H. Reisinger '12, New York financier, for he establishment of the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures was announced last night by Provost Buck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Professorship Set Up By New York Financier | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...voice from Paris was curt: "If they are French fleas, Monsieur, they will soon return to France. Swiss skins are too near the surface for our fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Long-Distance Call . .. | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...description is half right-the Daily Express sells for a penny. Otherwise, the Express is curt, concise, sometimes sensational, sometimes angrily opinionated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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