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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

¶ In Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: Sad Santa | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

This week Cummings was back in Chicago to tell his board of directors what he had learned. As a starter, Cummings would redesign most of the stores in the country by throwing out the counter. Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

As for salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

¶ A Manhattan department store offered left-handed corkscrews, fountain pens, watches, shears and checkbooks, just in time for Christmas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Something for Lefty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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