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Word: pry (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idea Man. In Colorado Springs, Pri vate Joseph Hollingsworth walked into the police station, announced that he had murdered his wife last March. In Seattle, police found Mrs. Hollingsworth very much alive. Said she: "Joe . . . gets funny ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...division who had committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities ever realize the effect an incident like this has on the morale of troops at the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: G.I. Nonsense | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...making it a currency managed by the state; 6) running up annual deficits of billions of dollars, while using the national debt as an instrument of managerial social policy; 7) imposing taxes to secure social and political ends rather than income; 8) weakening capital relative to themselves by curtailing pri vate property rights in measure after measure ; 9 ) the taking over by the executive bureaus of the attributes and func tions of sovereignty: "the bureaus become the de facto 'law makers.' " Burnham believes that the gradual reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man & Managers | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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