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Word: housebroken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, Angelenos thought that Fido, when completely housebroken and tied in with other landing aids (G.C.A. and I.L.S.), would do its job. In the "approach zone" to the airport, it could raise a 75-ft. ceiling to 400 ft., permitting landings when the airport would otherwise be closed in. When the port has been fogbound, airliners have had to land 100 miles away at Palmdale, at an extra cost of $8 to $10 a passenger. Since Fido will bring airliners in for as little as $1.50 a passenger, the five airlines underwriting nearly half its $842,000 cost figure that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Fido at Work | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...mustn't let his long affiliation with thousands of thin-thighed showgirls go to his vocabulary when he calls opera singers "hamfats." Does he know that it takes all that "heft" to sing above a vast orchestra? . . . Opera is not supposed to be a flashy, visual affair of housebroken horses and incredible bosoms ... We don't go to look; we go to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...even bearable. Neither the stars nor Hoagy Carmichael nor Ethel Barrymore can make it better than that. However, either Mr. Andrews or his makeup man has managed an effective illusion of blind eyes. Also, it appears that those involved in this movie about music are at least musically housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant -and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4½-game lead-was at stake. The Cards, somewhat housebroken descendants of the rough-&-tumble Gashouse Gang, were lighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again -this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Archibald S. ("Grey Owl") Belaney's account of two housebroken Canadian beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collected Curios | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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