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Word: decently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having retired four years ago after 48 years on the College faculty, "Kitty" still appears to be in excellent health. He claims to have been ill only two weeks in 50 years, and says he owes his superb condition to "good ancestry" and "decent living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kittredge Celebrated Eightieth Birthday Quietly With Family | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...Private Economy is Not at a Dead-End. . . . The persistent emphasis of this Committee on the necessity for a free, creative, and expanding life rests upon the conviction that it is the only kind of economic system under which a people has a decent chance to realize a sustained high standard of living. Our economy of free enterprise may not always have distributed justly the relative abundance it has created, but the politically dominated economies have created no abundance to distribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICAN PROGRAM: For Dynamic America | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...scraped the dishes clean while eating. The general treatment was quite decent and humane, but the control of the entire camp was lax and very inefficient. For instance, the delivery of the mail from the men's to the women's camp (which was only 20 kilometers distant) took about three weeks, often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Nearly two-thirds of the nation's children did not have "a decent American standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Decennial | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Less pretentious than most of the publicity about it, considerably less inspired than Author Damon Runyon's perfect name for its typical hero, the picture paves its lowly way with the good intentions of decent little people. Irony is implicit in the situation that brings two of them face to face with the President (played by Lewis Stone in his most complacent Judge Hardy manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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