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Word: paragraphed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News Drama Critic John Chapman, after viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...other footnote dropped from the final paragraph of the Henry Wallace affair. When the President called the Commerce Department to give Wallace his walking papers, Nover reported, "Wallace's response was so gentle and friendly that he, Truman, was almost ready to say to Wallace: 'Aw forget it, Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aw Forget It | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Social Relations course to be given this spring, and it is a title that has meant everything and nothing to all who have pondered its significance. In this course, and in countless others like it spread throughout the Social Relations, Government, History, and Economics departments, a brief descriptive paragraph would make program planning much less of a haphazardous adventure that it is nowadays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matter of Courses | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...because you only had the night before to review. Well, next term I'll be different, Vag thought. I'll fool them and do the reading ahead of time. Way ahead of time, he ran his pencil back and forth across the page until he had nicely furrowed one paragraph. He scratched his car with the eraser and looked at his watch. Right where I should be. He skipped the next thirty pages, to give himself a half-hour break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...Paragraph after paragraph, Molotov's assertions could be disproved by some simple digging for recorded facts. Why did Molotov lay himself open to such complete refutation? Expert Hitler knew the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Anatomy of the Big Lie | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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