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Word: staying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked how the GI's were doing on their limited funds, she answered, "They don't". Without war savings, support from home, or money earned by their wives, it would be imposible by her calculations for them to stay in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Budgeting Tackiest Cement of Marriage, Says Stapleton | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

...insciously graceful indeed, her gorgeous gyrations highlighting much of the second act. Libby Holman, featured female performer, disappoints with both her singing and acting as Miss Jenny. All in all, there is a mint of fine material and talent in "Twilight Alley"; with proper editing and direction, its Broadway stay may be a long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

Another 36,578 school kids in St. Paul, Minn., had it easier than the Denver stay-at-homes; they didn't even have to listen to the radio. About 1,000 organized schoolteachers (A.F.L.) had walked out in the largest teachers' strike in U.S. history. Among their demands: a boost in salary minimums from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher at the Mike | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

When the Russians were storming Stettin, 50 miles southeast of Peenemünde, blond, husky Dr. Werner von Braun, research director of E.W., had on his desk "five orders from the High Command telling me to stay at Peenemünde, and five orders, also from the High Command, telling me to move." He consulted his staff, decided to "go with the West," i.e., toward the British and American armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: We Want with the West . | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...begin with, the BBC is raddled with nepotism. You just can't get on the air without knowing someone. Well, think how it would be here if there were only one station. And once you're on, you have to be continually currying favor to stay on. Just when your show gets going, they're very likely to drop you. And by the time you get back everyone has forgotten you. And, of course, there's no money in it. It's just a way to keep your name before the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: British Bouquet | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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