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Word: steers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President should use his personal prestige and the power of his office to head off general anti-strike legislation, steer the present quarrel back to N.D.M.B., and get Lewis to suspend his walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti Anti-Strike | 10/30/1941 | See Source »

...most rabid football rooters, citizens last winter demanded that Ohio State hire Paul Brown, a 32-year-old high-school coach, to replace Francis Schmidt. At Massillon (Ohio) High School, Brown had chalked up a record of only one defeat in 60 games. No one expects him to steer the Buckeyes through the season undefeated-with Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan still to play-but on his record so far Upstart Brown has done the outstanding coaching job of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Half Time | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...entitled "Keep Right Except When Passing." Though now it has drifted into temporary oblivion, the most easily remembered verses go something like this: "Keep right except when passing, get control of your nerves, 'cause soft shoulders mean dangerous curves . . . . Keep right except when passing, both hands on the wheel, steer straight to love, baby, you know the way I feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG WRITERS GROUP BRINGS STREAM OF BUDDING TALENT | 10/21/1941 | See Source »

...years), and composed of 25 other lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet point and those who are rubber stamps for union politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Never Say Die | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and rope a steer." Her capacity for bemused self-deception keeps Husband Colman busy wooing her back from each butterflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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