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Word: junking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Radio Set | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...afternoon last week, although it was a weekday, Paris looked like Kansas on Sunday. Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 800,000 Iron Curtains | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitution Amended: Constitution Amended | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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