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Word: productively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable chiefly 1) because, as might have been expected, its story, of which the title is an adequate synopsis, appears to be a composite photograph of the innumerable other pictures on the same theme and 2) because, as might not have been expected, it is first-rate entertainment. Typical product of Producer Goldwyn's 16 authors: Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, kissing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Downing Street it was said that Mr. Chamberlain will not take to Paris any retinue of British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Four | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Customer (or market) research is a technique of consulting the buyer on his tastes before making a product. In "Buck" Weaver's words, it is "finding out what people like, doing more of it, finding out what people don't like, doing less of it." A logical operating philosophy, it is nonetheless given scant consideration by U. S. industry. Most businesses rely solely on dealers, advertising agents and only occasional surveys to keep apprised of public preference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: Thought-Starter | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...slight over statement, but it still suggests a condition that exists in most colleges today and harasses the instructors who are correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve their aims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

After he had lashed out at "this antiquated capitalistic system," Hicks went on to explain red-baiting as the product of two factors; first, capitalism's recognition of the Communists as its clearest-sighted and hardest-working opponents; second, the desire to discredit all liberal movements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10,500 at Communist Rally Greet Hicks With Protracted Applause | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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