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Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a promise to his farm audience that support prices would be maintained, Dewey attempted no detailed outline of his program, shrewdly contented himself with general pledges which friends wanted to hear and enemies would find difficult to attack. He promised a foreign policy "made effective by men & women who really understand the nature of the threat to peace and who have the vigor, the knowledge, and the experience required to wage peace successfully." He promised an administration "made up of men & women whose love of their country comes ahead of every other consideration." Cried Dewey: "I pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pitched High | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...ticketseller at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, the words themselves made music: "Sorry, sir, no seats-we're a success." For a fortnight, Londoners had been flocking to hear the new opera of lanky Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16)-his fourth in four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Beggar in New Clothes | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...have some fire and fight," Coach Valpey told his charges their first day out. Since then, the players have adopted those words. As the team comes out of a huddle, or digs in its toes on defense, you hear them say to each other, "Fire and fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Assistant Professor Louis Hartz is giving Social Sciences 118. I don't know anything about the course, but all the government concentrators I've ever met have put in plugs for Hartz. Their slogan goes "Hartz is great," and you can frequently hear small groups of them chanting it in unison...

Author: By Joel Raphaelzon, | Title: Off The Cuff | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...want a good literature course, be sure to look through the various languages sections in the catalogue. Some of the best courses in the college get hidden there. Slavic 155b is one of them, I hear...

Author: By Joel Raphaelzon, | Title: Off The Cuff | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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