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Word: nicer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said one Madrid housewife, no doubt thinking of her daily struggle with water and electricity shortages: "They must have plenty of maids on board those ships. How else do they keep so clean and their hats so white?" Added a Madrid girl: "Just like in the movies but much nicer and not so noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...that the water's polluted. MDC officials have been sniffing up the river in eyedroppers, and they reported yesterday that the water had never been nicer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...protested Brannan. The magic rabbit would make things nicer for farmer and consumer, and that meant everybody. But how much would it cost and who would pay for it? Charlie Brannan wasn't able to say offhand what the cost would be; he thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Farm Pharmacy | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...passed, the past is no more ... A kiss does not last you as long as once upon a time and the girls are not as sweet as they used to be ... Where is the old bachelor's flat, the perfume, the diamonds? . . . The old days were so much nicer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESTHETICS: Between Tears & Laughter | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...shape of things to come looked even nicer. Last week alone, no less than five new plants worth $15 million or more apiece were opened for production or research. U.S. Steel, which opened one of them near San Francisco (see below), planned to have another one near Los Angeles by 1950. Greenwood Mills announced a new $21 million expansion program; Sun Oil Co., a $70 million program; members of the American Gas Association will spend $3.3 billion. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which reported an alltime record in appliance production for September, saw no letup. Said Vice President J. H. Ashbaugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Up the Hill | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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