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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to New York," explained Molony, with a grin, "and I'll see the Colorado Fuel & Iron people. I'll say to them, 'We want the Bethlehem formula.' They'll say to me, 'What is the Bethlehem formula?' "Then I'll pound the table and I'll say, 'What the hell you trying to do-break the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Magic Formula | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Margot remembers the day Markova left the company. "Madame [de Valois] was talking to my mother. She said rather casually, 'I think we'll drop the classical ballets for a year and next year I'll put Margot in Giselle.' I absolutely died of fright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Sigma Chi house disgruntled brothers held a mock liquidation sale (see cut) in which most of the bottles were empties. The Daily Californian complained that the new rule "will mean a whole bottle instead of a drink. We'll just have to do our drinking parked up in the hills ..." Moreover, cried the student editors, by neglecting to discuss the decision with representatives of student groups, the administration had failed to treat students "like adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Mourning | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that if capitalism ignores its responsibilities, "we'll get the welfare state by default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...rights. They wish to remove the dishes. . ." When Venus dropped down to earth with Mars, the whole godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair. Venus' real weakness was not gods but men, something her mother-in-law was shrewd enough to suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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