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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: The Atkinson Story: A Change in City Reform | 9/19/1952 | See Source »

...main point was that management can increase efficiency in mass-production operations by helping employees gain more satisfaction from their work. As an executive of Armour & Co. put it, "The philosophy conveyed by this article is possibly as dynamic an idea as the steam engine was an invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...minority quickly recovered from this blitz attack, and Councilor W. Dennison Swan '17 shouted: "This is a shame and a disgrace to the council . . . I can see the fine hand with the Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: The Atkinson Story: A Change in City Reform | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...this point that an Eisenhower enthuiast from Massachusetts learned of the deal, collected the unseated delegates, and persuaded them to file a contest. The Secretary of the National Committee, who exclusively had the right to certify disputes and who had been thoroughly jostled by the steam roller in the performance of her task, agreed that a contest existed and that it should be certified to the Credentials Committee...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Discovery of a Principle in a Nutshell | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Psychological Strategy Board, whose job is directing a unified line for U.S. propaganda abroad, was launched in July 1951. Since then, it has had so many changes of command that it has never got up a full head of steam. Its first director, Gordon Gray, resigned after six months; he was succeeded by Raymond B. Allen, who took the job on a temporary basis, is quitting after 8½ months. Last week, the board got its third skipper-Admiral Alan G. Kirk, U.S.N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Admiral Comes Aboard | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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