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Word: mends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning years, Hadden was TIME'S editor, Luce its business manager; later, by agreement, they switched jobs. Editor Hadden liked to liven things up by scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Posthumous Portrait | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...cancer is caused by environment, said the Institute's Dn A. V. Diebert. Exposure to too much sun may cause it; cancer of the skin is three times as prevalent in the South as in the North. Cancer may also be included among occupational hazards. Men who mend fishnets for a living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing Fight | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Wald likened science to a vast patchwork quilt full of holes which scientists are trying to mend. He emphasized the importance of free exchange of ideas in the scientific world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANSS Speakers See "Correctness" Mark of Science | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crisis in Britain | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...total: 57, including business staff). Since the staff employees are all party members, they are subject to the party's discipline, which rules out such bourgeois reporters' vices as office parties and poker games. Staffers caught breaking the rules must apologize in public meetings and promise to mend their ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The House on Twelfth Street | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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