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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general mood which seemed to prevail at that hotel for the psyche. The sense was one of gladness, indeed pleasure, for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were home again, and I feel certain I am taking no liberties when I say for my brethren viewers that the return of Bogart and Bacall fully made the day for all of us; this, in spite of the inclemency of the cumulus...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Big Sleep | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Verdicts Sir; I should like to congratulate TIME [May 5] for its incisive commentary on the return of modern jurisprudence from unguided prag to first principles. If the ideal func tion of a news magazine is to chart the pulse of a changing society, TIME has fulfilled its purpose admirably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...went up in Russia in time to impress a visiting Nasser. In Algiers ambitious men leaped to a balcony to power events, and in France General Charles de Gaulle, who last controlled events to restore the French Republic after World War II, dramatically announced that he was ready to return to save it from civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...offer: in return for giving up $100 million worth of federal grants-in-aid they now get for vocational-education work and water-purification plants, the states should get the chance to collect $150 million of the revenue that the U.S. now takes in from its 10% tax on local telephone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: More Power to States | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Meat Cutters Union, which had made no move to organize clerks, offer it an exclusive contract on "sweetheart" terms. In return for the right to collect dues from the captive thousands of A. & P. clerks, the butchers' union signed a 22-month contract committing the employees to work 45 hours a week. A month later, in return for some minor concessions on welfare benefits, the local boss of the butchers, Max Block, secretly agreed to extend the contract for 33 months longer, still at the old hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Sweetheart Terms | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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