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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newer Than Baseball | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Besides baseball, there were fireworks, blaring bands, clowns, bike riders, tightrope walkers balancing above the heads of bleacher fans, a ballpark nursery where mothers could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with the Pink Hair | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

At one time or another, he had spoken out for cuts in defense spending, greater economies in ECA operations, and a tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Steam? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

By last week, some 6% of all the oil rigs on the North American continent had moved to Scurry County, 200 wells were already in and producing at the maximum allowable rate of 35,374 barrels a day, 133 new ones were in the process of drilling, and wildcatters were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Biggest Thing Yet? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Outside of buying such necessities, most of Scurry County's new-rich were living much as before and saving their money. As Joe York's neighbor, Arthur ("Booger Red") Townsend put it: "A man don't need no million dollars, all he needs is some comfortable circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Biggest Thing Yet? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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