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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done exactly what Ohio's hardheaded, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft had demanded for months, usually with small support. It had passed an amendment declaring that for whatever the Federal Government spends (after 1947) there must be new taxes "to prevent any net increase in the federal debt." In short, the Senate had taken a stand for that all but forgotten institution, the balanced budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Forgotten Institution | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...What some countries of the West call freedom of the press is nothing but a rope on which a capitalist publisher keeps his journalists. If the rope is long enough, freedom of speech is relatively long. If the rope is short freedom of speech is short-cropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth Is 33 Years Old | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Touched Me! (by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham; "suggested" by D. H. Lawrence's short story; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is dubbed a "romantic comedy." Few romantic comedies have either soared with so much message or stooped to so many monkeyshines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...this was only half the story. The real reason that sugar is so short is primarily the fault of the industry itself. The "unhealthy economics and unholy politics" of sugar make the industry produce too much sugar between wars and too little during them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bitter End | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Equipped for Action. In Brigham City, Utah, Joseph Miller exchanged his first set of artificial limbs for a longer pair when he met a tall blonde, bought a short set for better balance when skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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