Search Details

Word: gs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About That Toga? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Anthony Drexel Biddle received a present in London for the relief of child air-raid victims in Hawaii. The present: gs i id in pennies. The donors: child air-raid victims in the East End Youth Hostel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Free Agent | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Besides the Chief, the General Staff consists of six Brigadier Generals. They are the Deputy Chief, the head of the War Plans Division, the four "Gs": Personnel (G-1), Military Intelligence (G-2), Operations & Training (G3) and Supply (G-4). Unlike their boss, V. M. I.-man Marshall, all of today's General Staff's Division Chiefs are West Pointers. All are field soldiers, two have had diplomatic service in Europe or Asia, all are young as U. S. general staffs go (the youngest 55, the eldest 60). Caught between wars, soldiers of an army which was largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the March | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Unlimited class: Elmer Meyer GS vs. K D Robinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING FINALS SLATED AT HEMENWAY TONIGHT | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | Next