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Word: dish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready for a still bigger dish of cream-the huge road-building and heavy construction programs which the war had deferred. Last week, with his order backlog so heavy that he has to put his customers on allocations, Neumiller was sure that 1949's sales would outstrip even 1948's alltime record-unless business goes to pot. Even then, thinks Neumiller, plenty of Cats would be needed in public works projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Big Cat | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week, R. H. Macy & Co. was hawking an odd item-dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: A Double Life | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...have the acquired taste for the sweet cynicism of Contineual comedy, "Figure of a Girl" should he your dish. But don't expect more than a saucer...

Author: By George A. Loiper, | Title: Figure of a Girl | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

...Dish. A microwave reflector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Video Verbiage | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Like one of his cabarets, Billy Rose's first book has a dish for almost every taste. Smeared over most of them is a thick paste of sentimental egotism; the reader can no more escape Billy Rose ("I'm a ham-boned, hickory-smoked, and sugar-cured") than he could escape himself if he were locked up in a padded cell. One chapter, "Holm, Sweet Holm," tells the reader how wonderful wife Eleanor is, how she makes him behave like a gentleman, stops him from buying candied apples on sticks (because they have "nine million calories"), and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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