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...Phrase-fancier Franklin Roosevelt had picked up a new one: sixth column. He used it at a press conference to denounce gossips and defeatists who spread rumors planted by enemy agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Column VI | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

This week the Plain Dealer received far fancier compliments than Churchill's. To celebrate its looth birthday appeared a 402-page history of the Plain Dealer (Knopf; $4), by its longtime chief editorial writer, 65-year-old Archer H. Shaw. A labored labor of love, it added valuable history of one of the most famed U.S. newspapers. Like most such histories-and like the Plain Dealer itself-Author Shaw's book is dullest in the most recent decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cleveland Centenarian | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Saving copper is thus still the only answer to the copper crisis. Some of the fancier notions of this sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPPER: Where Is It Coming From? | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...bitter disappointment, even though the Army Air Corps had patiently explained that the 6-19 was built not so much for use as for experience in building big ships. Probably there will never be another 6-19, but the lore learned in her building will go into many a fancier ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Second Flying Elephant | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Between 1866 and 1890 something like ten million Longhorns were marched out of Texas into the North and West. Within a few more years, railroads had made possible the shipping of fatter, fancier meat. The Longhorn was doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History with Horns | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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