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...besides money in the bank. . . . North Dakota has turned to diversified farming. More and better grasses & pastures, more cattle, sheep, hogs, dairy products, turkeys, eggs and chickens. Maybe the farmers of McKenzie County can manage it, but the rest of us find it leaves us considerably less time to loaf, drink beer, play poker and have gold fillings put in our teeth than we would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Having asked the Congress for a loaf of bread to take care of this war," he went on, he might have been content with "this small piece of crust" if it had not contained "so many extraneous and inedible materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barkley Incident | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...just a scientist in sadism, with a job to do. He tosses a loaf of bread into the dirt among a crowd of starving men, not for the fun of it, but in order that they shall dive for it, fight, divide and degrade themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...ucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) is an outstanding Rio de Janeiro landmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Foundations Move | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Last week a woman asked Columnist Haworth for advice on how to keep her errant husband home. Among other things, she was told: "Your husband's encroaching predilection for ganging up with a stag party to loaf his nights away in cocktail lounges, buying drinks for bevies of uniformed women ... is spendthrift carousing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So You Want an Answer? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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