Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Committees that his plan would not cut into the bomber program. He said he was planning to prepare his own mines and mills for production of minerals and alloys. He said he could train his own skilled labor. He denied that the precision work in plane-building could stump a shipbuilder (in spite of the fact that planemakers say it is still stumping converted automakers-and that he has been a shipbuilder for only 20 months). Anyhow, he snorted, 40% of the work in building planes was in adminsnation, purchasing and expediting...
...dimpled, operatic Nelson Eddy. As Budapest's jaded Count Willy Palaffi, Eddy falls asleep vowing he will marry nothing less than an angel. Obligingly, M.G.M. sends him Jeanette MacDonald (complete with wings). Since not even camera magic can etherealize perdurable Angel MacDonald, this is one dream to stump Freud-especially when DreamerEddy takes his Angel for a dream honeymoon in Paris...
...assignment is likely to be the toughest yetצne that might well stump a less experienced war correspondent. There will be fighting all along a vast, shifting, 2,000-mile front from Archangel to the Black Sea. But Graebner's main work will be behind the lines, to see and report on as much of the Soviet Union as he can—and thus to help TIME'S readers toward a better understanding of this new Russia, which is battling 4,000,000 Nazis on one front and immobilizing a million Japs on the other...
...around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned; the stump is sprinkled with sulfanilamide, left exposed so that there is no closed pocket for bacteria to breed in. Later on, the skin is pulled down over the bone...
...that many of the letters that had deluged them on the labor question (TIME, March 30) advised them to listen to Kaltenborn. Listening, they found that Kaltenborn was being more than a commentator. In mid-March he took labor as an issue and, going beyond criticism, became virtually a stump speaker. Samples...