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Word: preparedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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One hesitates to criticize a poll which was prepared over the course of two months with the help of the Social Relations Department (and corrected with its IBM machine). There can be little doubt, however, that the Council's recent Food Poll was poor. It asked the wrong questions right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thought for Food | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

With Teeth. The debate had helped clear the air. It had also raised-and apparently answered-a larger question. Was the U.S. prepared, in the age of atomic bombs and jet-propelled planes, to pledge armed support of Europe? The answer, after a few minutes' hesitation, seemed to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Taking Sides | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

To give it one, the Association of Stock Exchange Firms was also at work. It had prepared a stock-market primer aimed at the non-investor. "There's no more mystery about [investing]," said the folksy little brochure, "than buying groceries, a suit of clothes or an automobile. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sales Talk | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

The innocent gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaum to the Last | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

The men who run baseball had more to worry about last week than who would play second base. Three black-robed U.S. Court of Appeals judges, sitting in as umpires on a $300,000 damage suit, prepared to call a play that could really hurt. In effect, baseball was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball at the Bar | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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