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Word: respondents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season last year. Professional football stood to lose about 10% of its players, but good football players were a dime a dozen. Prize fighting's best prospect was Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis-No. 378 on his local draft board and ready, willing and able to respond to an early call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Draft and the Dodgers | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For Four Human Freedoms | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...news that Ginger Rogers would play Kitty. Ginger, with her shoulder-length tresses, her trig figure, her full lips, her prancing feet and honest-to-goodness manner, is the flesh-&-blood symbol of the U. S. working girl. When Ginger emotes, only a nonconforming female heart fails to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...loaded with defense orders, are understandably freezing as much inventory as possible (mainly of durable goods) against possible war-goods shortages in 1941. Last week November's returns from the non-defense sector of the economy were coming in. They showed that late autumn consumption had begun to respond to the powerful stimulus of defense spending, was beginning to follow 1940's record production into a two-sided boom. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Down the Stretch | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...manly virtues of the country. Compulsory military service will augment chances in life for the youth. The urgency of making our merchant and naval marines respectable units has made it necessary for us to create their respective departments into a State Ministry. With this we shall be able to respond better to the responsibility of maintaining intact the sovereignty of our nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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