Search Details

Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Treaty of London, if it had been kept, would have given Italy part of Dalmatia, hegemony over Albania, colonial expansion in Africa and influence in the Near East. Instead, she got only slivers of African territory from the Allies, had to buy, then steal Albania, and waited for May 1941 to get her share of Dalmatia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Imperial Bullfrog | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...elimination of Nazi agents from U.S. business concerns, backfired with annoying results. By last week several hundred agents had been fired by their employers. Many of them had promptly hopped off to the U.S.. sold their services to their former employers' competitors, returned to Latin America to steal business for their new firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Army of Amateurs | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Harvard bids fair to steal the spotlight at next September's Fiftieth Anniversary celebration at the University of Chicago. Five professors here, the largest contingent from any university in the country, are scheduled to receive honorary degrees for their achievements in science and scholarship, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 PROFESSORS GIVEN DEGREES | 5/28/1941 | See Source »

...last they came to Benny. He read his speech, with a crack for all comedians present. and an introduction for each of lis assistants (for his famed Negro valet: 'Next week I start Charley's Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: All Hail to Jack Benny! | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall, other Fisk buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Year of Jubilee | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | Next