Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was the problem of 450 miserable Filipino men, women and children who had moved into our building bag & baggage. ("Day after day the garbage accumulated outside the doors and windows, and at mealtimes the office was so filled with smoke you couldn't see across it.") We hadn't the heart to throw them out on the street, so we bought most of them off for ten pesos. Then we tried turning off the water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila still...
...Well now, Jim," said George Babbitt; "maybe you hadn't ought to be too hard on old Red Lewis. You don't want to forget he made...
...414th Infantry who found the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in Rossala, Germany, promptly presented her with a copy of TIME. She told them she "knew the magazine well, but hadn't seen it for a long time...
Back in Kansas City he dropped in at Eddie Jacobson's Westport Men's Wear Shop, examined the stock expertly, bought 18 pairs of size 11 socks. To Eddie, who hadn't won a pot in the poker game, he chuckled: "I thought you'd need this sale, after what we did to you last night." Then, recalling the dark day in 1922 when they had gone bankrupt, he asked, "How's business, anyhow...
...London restaurants last week the buzz of war talk had been replaced by: "I say, it is a frightful mess-Lend-Lease. ... If Roosevelt hadn't died. . . . May as well face it ... they want to lend, and they bloody well won't buy. . . . I'm ready to go but I can't get materials...