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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scientists seemed agreed on two points: 1) atomic energy is too big for uncontrolled private enterprise, and 2) in national defense the U.S. would be mad to suppose that the secret of the bomb could long be kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Better than Dynamite? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...cool enough to develop its crispy sweetness and incomparable flavor. Colorado celery is so delicious that it doesn't make any difference whether it is salted or not, but it is also good enough that no one minds bending the wrist slightly to salt it. Coloradoans are not "mad" at Mr. Morton, Mr. Carey, the Great Salt Lake, or any other person who has a lot of salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...leave. We know what we want and we are going to try to get it, and the Germans are used to leadership. If you don't give it to them, then they will follow ours, even if they don't like us. Then you'll get mad, but it will be your own fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: You Don't Know What You Want | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...household in which he grew up. Having become an officer, a hero and the accepted equal of white Europeans, Brett Charles (Gordon Heath) has a new and far less subservient conception of himself and his race. When he takes some trifling liberties, the Senator (Charles Waldron) gets so blazing mad, so hell-bent on punishing the boy, that he pins on him the theft of a missing watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...flying squadron of them turned up at Brooklyn's High School for Homemaking, there found some of the girls mad because the school's evening socials had been dropped. Out on strike went a gang of girls, with the war cry: "It's an old maid's institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: As the Twig Is Bent | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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