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Word: lawful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it looked as if the U.S. farmer could blithely ignore the law of supply & demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much as they're supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Rests | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...they, just because of the crowds and the noise?" cried Homer. "The people that come to see our scene just stand there quiet and reverent and they don't drink or shout." The city gave up. Said Mayor Wallace Savage: "We can't just pass a law to stop it. Many people would think we were being antireligious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Noisy Night | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Strong criticism of radio was voiced last night at a Law School Forum on "What Is Wrong with American Radio?" Speakers attacked the industry for its overcommercialization, the low intellectual standards of its programs, and the smallness of its public service broadcasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Panel Criticizes Standards of Radio Industry | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zipf Says World Dictator Unlikely | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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