Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
...several stock musical plot formulae that Hollywood has available on its shelf for immediate and frequent use, the brothers Metro, Goldwyn, and Mayer have one which they keep all for themselves. This one inevitably involves Jimmy Durante and a couple of other characters of varied talent who get into the act, of whom one quite frequently may be a girl named Kathryn Grayson, who sings. "It Happened in Brooklyn" has something to do with a shy ex-soldier with a great and unrequited love for the well-known borough, accompanied by an assortment of others (girl music teacher, boy piano...
...accord with the Constitution. Until the Supreme Court finds that a man, by belonging to the Communist Party is automatically an enemy of society, Mr. Schwellenbach's little plan for clearing things up in America should be gently but firmly laid to rest on a good, high Congressional shelf...
...printed, and sold them at cost (35. 6d.). Said one Bloomsbury bookseller: "American intellectuals have so much vitality that it just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with the dawn...
Before real estate brokers or prospectors slake their claims, however, the ticklish international problem of rights on the continent must be solved. The U. S. held on Little America is weak, both legally and physically, warns Professor Rice, because Byrd's settlement is on the Ross ice shelf, which is tech- nically ocean and a "no mans land...