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Word: deale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condemn the tragic lack of foresight of the New Deal administration which has brought out ally China to the brink of disaster. The situation in China is equal in importance to the situation in Western Europe. (2) We favor immediate, adequate economic and military assistance to the legally constituted Chinese government conditioned on strict supervision by American personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College GOP Asks Military Aid for Nationalist China | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...eagle-eyed as I am, I never once found anything interesting until Monday afternoon, When I noticed a piece of a certain Housemaster's' stationery in a gutter. It was note admonishing an undergraduate for parking a car in a reserved space. "I have been put to a good deal of trouble," the note began, "and some expense, arrange for this reserved parking space. It is for the convenience of my wife, my guests, and myself...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff -:- | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...trademark. Not so well known is Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co. (named after Alphonse Plomb, one of three founders), a much younger firm (founded in 1907). When Plomb applied in 1926 to make its name a trademark, Plumb promptly squawked in court. The result was a deal in which Plomb agreed not to use its name on anything that resembled the famed Plumb Tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Plumb v. Plomb | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Players of Radcliffe presented William Congreve's "The Way of the World" in a modern-dress version. This play, the wittiest of Restoration comedies, fares badly by modernization because it is best enjoyed as a period piece. Taking "The Way of the World" of the Restoration takes a great deal out of the ply itself...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Way of the World | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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