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Word: stage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame the simplest of arguments. Even with a brilliant record at Yale, his logic had not yet reached the "pigs is pigs" stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...business to become visible. But the first impulse of many a U. S. businessman was to get liquid and cancel his commitments. A selling panic hit the stock and commodity markets. But Hitler's victories also started a U. S. National Defense boom towards the blueprint stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Panic in the Markets | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...enactment of Daniel in the lion's den. The Rev. Mr. Thompson whirled like a dervish, shadowboxed, raced with miniature fury up & down the platform, dropped to his knees to carry on in a high-pitched chant. Down front, the sinners whooped & hollered. On the stage sat five guest preachers. Pretending they were lions, Preacher Thompson poked them in the ribs. "Dan'l used a lion for a pillow," cried he, hurled himself on to their laps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Midget Revivalist | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...than a start. U. S.-owned plantations in Latin America are still on an experimental scale, retarded in growth by inadequate labor, poor transportation and the reliance of the U. S. on sources across the Pacific. Rubber-growing in the Philippines, Florida and California is still in the nursery stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Rubber and Tin | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...before as Captain Tom Healey pitched one-hit ball for six innings only to lose out when the Orange and Black counted twice in each of the last three innings. A walk, an error, and a scratch hit filled the sacks in the last frame and set the stage for the double steal on which Warner Allen came home with the winning...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: Burgy Ayres Blanks Pennsylvania to Win 2 to 0; Quakers Take Second 9 to 6; Tigers Cop 6 to 5 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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