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Word: explicitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messrs. Kintner & Alsop, reporting history within a few months of its making, do an extraordinary job. The explicit point from which their narrative starts, and to which it returns, implicitly, again & again, is that the U. S. is a member of the community of democratic nations, aware, and willing to act on its awareness, that what threatens that community also threatens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The U. S. & the War | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Murray (Texaco) asked what party she was affiliated with. "Same old party," replied Gracie, "George Burns." Murray tried to be more explicit. Politicians always pick a political party, he said, and then get affiliated. "Well," said Gracie, "I may take a drink now and then, but I never get affiliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Communist Party of Massachusetts, however, was even more bitter and more explicit in its denunciation of the Y.A.A. In a release it said: "Statements have appeared about former Communists being members of this fascist group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNIST PARTY AND PREACHER ATTACK Y.A.A. | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...There is no question in my mind that the contract between the union and the University explicit provides for this," Dean Donham said. He referred to the clause of the contract signed last March which excepts "students in the University who are or may be employed therein as a means on enabling them to pay part of their expenses while studying at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Business School Board Rate Forced Lay-Off Unions Condemn | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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