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Word: firming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative way he did not disappoint them. He had high praise for previous cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America in joint cultural, educational and health projects. When he came to the future, he dotted no i's, crossed no t's, but he did make a firm commitment. Said Acheson: "Almost every kind of project contemplated in the worldwide program [of help to undeveloped areas] has been developed and tested in cooperative [InterAmerican] programs . . . Present plans include a substantial expansion of these joint activities in this hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polite Promise | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...history department is a firm believer in tutorial. Sophomores in Group IV get introductory group tutorial which consists of examinations of great historical writing. The department isn't too fussy about C's and juniors with a high Group V ranking can have full tutorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History . . . | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Cripps began to read in a firm, precisely modulated voice, and listeners' faces lost the look of pleased anticipation. The news that the Chancellor brought forth from the dispatch case was almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Iron Chancellor | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Branching out from the field of six-gun and college-gridiron thrillers, Street & Smith also launched such pulps as Top Notch and Ainslee's, made sales boom with the works of the firm's byliners, who included Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Conan Doyle and Bret Harte. Covers came from such artists as Norman Rockwell, James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mercy Killings | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...policy is of the same type as those usually issued to farmers for protection of wheat and grain fields. It came as a result of two weeks of cabled correspondence between Club officials and the London firm of William Garthwaite Limited, agents for Lloyds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woolley Beard Worth 5 G's | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

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