Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swish East Side clubs are going almost as strong. Variety reports that headwaiters, disguised in overcoats, stand outside two East Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung...
...nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus the 132,000,000 Americans, honest and dishonest, good, bad and humanly both, had become the only people of the earth's two billion who could save the hopes of the world in the simple struggle to save their...
...could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
Last week Timken-Detroit was making 300 pinions an hour on one machine. The gear teeth need no machining, come out of the dies cleanly accurate. The forging process produces tougher gears, will save about a million pounds of steel...
...from an almost impossible position. . . . To my consternation, the night before we moved, it was given out on the air that 'the British forces are withdrawing to their base at Kalewa.' The result was that we were partially cut off and only after heavy fighting did I save the small force that I had. I lost some of my artillery and 49 tanks out of 50, as well as considerable killed and wounded. The commentator could not have known my plans . . . some 'wise guy' [was] speculating as to what we might...