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Word: staying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yacht Williamsburg three weeks ago, President Truman looked at long strings of figures supplied by Budget Director Harold D. Smith. There in neatly rounded numbers was the billion-dollar mathematics of what it would cost for the U.S. Government to stay in business after having run in the red for 16 years and built up a $275,000,000,000 debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mathematics of Peace | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

After attending a service at the posh, progressive Eglinton Avenue United Church, a United Church minister in Toronto was invited to stay for the young people's meeting. When he went upstairs, he found the young people (with perhaps 100 adults present) bellowing a song, to the strains of I'm Nobody's Sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nobody's Moo Cow | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Adequate Incentive. Now, Al Browning hopes to perform another minor miracle in Wallace's bailiwick; he expects to make it the two-fisted champion of business in the Administration. He has promised to stay only three months, will probably stay longer if Wallace lives up to his promise to give him a free hand. What he hopes to drive home is that business must have "adequate incentive" to supply the jobs for full employment, i.e., taxes should be further reduced, plant amortization regulations liberalized, etc. He summed up his new job: "Our purpose is to stimulate, not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Stimulator | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Reporting the case in the Journal of Aviation Medicine, Dr. Kenneth E. Dowd drew a moral for all such patients: stay on the ground; but if you must fly, stay below 5,000 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pressure & the Lungs | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Audiences will not be in much suspense, but they may stay interested just wondering what the dimwitted, unprincipled characters will think of next. They think of a good many things, mostly criminal. Almost as soon as Edward G. Robinson spots Joan Bennett underneath a street lamp, cinemaddicts will be able to predict the general course of events, right up to the final shriek. By the time Robinson tries to hang himself from the light fixture of a cheap hotel room, most audiences may be sick & tired of all the scheming characters and their doomed, impractical schemes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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