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Word: pied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pie-Eyed. In Baltimore, Erranger Trogdon's horse went on a tear, skidded into a confectionery store, fell, philosophically lay on the floor, ate three pies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Ten | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...rubdown ends the session, but the grim shadow of Dr. Graham lingers on through dinner. Noticeably smaller on Harry Truman's plate are the once-hearty portions of his favorites-steak, ham, fried chicken, and custard pie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hold That Waistline | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Production alone could furnish the answers. If industry did the job in peace which it had done in war, then the answers would sound pleasant to businessmen. They would have their profits. And labor might well have a larger slice of the national pie. There was no reason why industry could not do the job as long as it realized the size of the job to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE PRIMROSE PATH | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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