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Word: pinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welcker pinch hit for Owen Brewster, Republican Senator from Maine, who was kept from his scheduled speech at the Forum by the Senate filibuster debate. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, served as moderator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Hears Thomas Urge More Control | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Businessman, Soviet Model | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Layoffs & Lectures. From the red brick railroad station to Oppenheims, Jackson's big modernistic department store, Main Street was feeling a pinch. The stores were bustling with people, but less than one out of ten customers walked out with a package. Last week 60 clerks who had been laid off reported for unemployment compensation. At the weekly meeting, the manager of the Sears, Roebuck store lectured his employees: "This week we dropped another $11,000 from our previous week ... I must ask you to watch every penny, be it in the cash register or in the electric bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tale of a City | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Do Your Best, Max! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will feel no financial pinch this year because of the transfer, President Conant explained, as the necessary endowment has been transferred along with the Libraries. But if maintenance costs increase any more in the future, a Faculty committee will have to weigh the library's need against other requirements of the Arts and Sciences department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts, Sciences Faculty Gets Control of College Library | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

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