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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...company profits, tacked another few shillings on leaf tobacco to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to 54?, and lifted the subsidy on bread (thus increasing the cost of a loaf to 12?). Mostly he aimed at forcing the public to keep its money in bank or sock instead of buying what should be exported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Flutter on Harold | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Even with the proper atmosphere for composition, state songs still need titles. Composers could strive for the "sock it to 'em" effect of a state song like "California Here I Come." Or with New England simplicity, they could follow the example of Oklahoma, whose official state song is entitled "Oklahoma"; or Maryland ("O Maryland...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: I Hear Massachusetts Singing | 2/11/1956 | See Source »

...reader first meets Mr. Hamish Gleave at the Derby. He is suitably dressed-morning coat, top hat-but there is a darn in his sock, and this darn becomes the whole darn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treason in Whitehall | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Following Meigs, Coach Lloyd Jordan praised his captain as a "really fine man. A representative group of Harvard men," he continued, "is going to go down to New Haven tomorrow and sock it to 'em." And the band played...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Radcliffe Raid Follows Big Yale Rally On IAB Steps | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

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