Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
...expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
...task for U.S. factories and farms for 1948, big as it looked on paper, was not as big as the job it had been doing. In 1948, it would get more outside help in supplying food, the burden that had put the greatest strain on the U.S. There were good crops in Australia and Argentina, and even hope that Europe, after eight years of bad crops, would have a normal harvest. The peak of the export boom had passed and, with a loosening of raw materials all around, there would be more goods for the U.S. in 1948. While...
...reconstructing the planet he thought had existed, young Dr. Brown got a $1,000 prize for "the outstanding paper" presented to the A.A.A.S...
Shawnessy's Eve. As little Johnny Shawnessy, born in 1839, he grew up in the cornland of central Indiana. In his teens he pored over Shakespeare and began writing a column signed "Will Westward" for a Raintree County weekly paper. He fell in love with a beautiful girl named Nell. Among his friends were Cassius P. ("Cash") Carney, a boy with business sense, and Garwood Jones, a robust, youthful politician with a shrewd eye for the girls and the main chance. Garwood Jones and Johnny Shawnessy were rivals for Nell, but Garwood would never have won out if Johnny...