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Word: sugaring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stone Age to the Mink Age are acutely conscious of money. Most of their waking hours are spent in thinking about it, in planning how they can use it so that it will purchase the most and still leave them a little something for the savings bank ... or the sugar jar on the pantry shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Women | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Turkey's constitution flatly defines "Statism" as the republic's guiding economic policy. The Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking. The bureaucrats have grandiose dreams of industrialization and self-sufficiency. They built a huge steel mill at Karabuk for $23 million-equal to the national education budget for one year. They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices. But Turkey cannot yet keep pace with their plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Wild West of the Middle East | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...them, complete with boots and ten-gallon hats. He also beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength and a fullback named Eddie Price, Tulane was ranked No. 4 in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murder, Inc. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Pulp | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Science Service revealed yesterday that most manufacturers have been adding powdered saccharine--200 times sweeter than sugar--to their current lipstick offerings. Just a little powder--it can be balanced on a pinhead--gives enough of a boost to each stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Meets Mouth Than Meets Eye | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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