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Word: slicings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays about Negroes have been two grades above the minstrel stage-the cork is missing, but the spirit is there." Many of the company, including Actress Simms, have been at universities but never on Broadway. Most of them are war workers who have kept the A.N.T. alive with a slice of their earnings. Last April, however, the Theater was saved from shoestringing along for a while by a $9,500 grant from the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Harlem | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Heirs. No one has ever disputed Joe Day's claim that he sold "at least a third of the Bronx" and almost as big a slice of Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. Last week one eloquent obituary estimated that if all his sales were strung end to end they would "make a strip 100 ft. wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Salesman | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...while flooding large parts of Holland is possible, flooding the western coastal areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Second Front Casts Its Shadow | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

This was no surprise to Mt. Vernon's new boss, Thomas Mellon Evans.* Tom Evans, just turned 33, slick-haired, aggressive, plunked himself into the president's chair a fortnight ago and calmly announced that he was out to carve himself a rich slice of the rail car business. He did not seem to care if it came right out of the venerable Big Four-Pullman, American Car, General American and Pressed Steel. His $3,000,000 order from the Southern Railway for 1,000 freight cars was proof he meant business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Young Tom Evans | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...commercial publishers, retooled by Army pedagogues and writers. Teacher-value is got into the books by simplifying language, adding helpful illustrations, frequent summaries, true & false tests. A physics self-teacher tells how to study gas diffusion without a laboratory: if a piece of cheese is boxed with a slice of raw onion for an hour or so, one bite of the cheese will show that gas gets around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pupils Without Teachers | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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