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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world crisis in which they are involved, may be growing aware that their generation is shaping the history of the world. Their outward apathy may cover a realistic appraisal of the task they face, a grim realization that the better world they want is not to be built overnight in a glorious burst of crusading exaltation, but only by hard, slow, disagreeable, long-continued trial & error. Perhaps Americans must sacrifice old dislikes, perhaps even material advantages, to win to that better world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rendezvous with Destiny | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...railroads were lazy from lack of competition. Their idea of what-to-do-about-the-postwar-travel-boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning to Competitors | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...million in ten years. He almost did it in five. Were it not for wartime paper shortages, Express circulation (now 2,800,000) would be much larger. When English publications were granted 10% more paper several weeks ago, Express circulation shot up 250,000 almost overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleet Street Wizard | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Gurgled a Tommy: "You'd think sentiment like that would turn your stomach. But blimey, it's marvelous." Beamed the Daily Mail: "Riotously amusing." Even the thunderous Times felt that it offered "valuable lessons to the English music hall." Overnight Irving Berlin's This Is The Army was a London smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Blimey! | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...League? Overnight, Lausche became the hottest Democratic prospect in Ohio. Though he is a Roosevelt supporter, he owes nothing to the party. He won his record majority in 1941 as an independent; then the party got on his bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Cleveland: Man to Watch | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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