Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think I'm going out on a limb when I say we have some good boys back, and some who have entered recently," McCoy went on, "but you have to remember that the Harlow system is not something which is learned overnight, and even some of our best new boys may take a while before the Varsity is really a polished club...
Businessmen, still remembering the sad inventory crisis of 1920, may not repeat their speculative errors. The productive capacity of the nation is so much greater now than in 1920 that some shortages may turn into surpluses overnight...
Dream House. In Honolulu, Chun Hoon, Ltd., grocers, reported the overnight appearance on their premises of a two-bedroom house, unoccupied. Next night it went away again...
Perspective-a highly useful editorial requisite-was what Matthews was after (except for vacations and an occasional overnight journey, he has scarcely been out of the ME's chair from the day he took it over in the dour month of February...
...plague and damnation to the impractical intellectuals who impatiently castigate the United Nations and mournfully declaim that no good can come from so impotent an organization. The myopic hopefuls who would overnight transform an intensely nationalistic world into a blissful brotherhood of man are sadly ignorant of the political facts of life...