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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't cost Mr. Fairless a nickel of his own to agree that every steelworker have a mansion, a yacht and an ulcer . . . The bill for the welfare plan will finally be passed along to that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs of U.S. farmers-the richest farmers in history, enjoying the richest years of their lives, and determined that other U.S. taxpayers should go on contributing handsomely to their prosperity. All week long the Senators wrangled hotly for the farmers' favor, reminding each other of the awful vengeance awaiting anyone who voted wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Farmer's Friends | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...band has had its troubles--there's no question about that either. Ask the Dean's office. There was the Virginia trip that they took, from which they almost didn't return, and there was the Stanford trip, on which they didn't go at all. Their chronic financial ills are well known. Ask the HAA, or better, ask the band's manager. Each year there's the possibility that the band may not go...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odds On | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

Students got about in Europe by every conceivable means, from gondola to airliner. Bicycle is the fashion abroad: on maps, roads are even marked with little pointed things to show where the hills are and which way they go. Jeeps are cheap and rugged. A few stalwarts went about on motorcycles, which are fine except on cobblestones, where they shake you to jelly...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

West Point athletic authorities returned 2000 seats to Saturday's game to the H.A.A. yesterday. The tickets, for sections 11 and 12 will go on sale at the H.A.A. as soon as they arrive today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Bureau Starts Well; Bingham Sees Grim Future | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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