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Word: syrups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Questions & Answers | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Only the Livestock. Now being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized to augment Harvard's famous glass flowers exhibition. Even the formaldehyde not vaporized in cooking the specimens could be substituted for the syrup on the breakfast French toast without creating any particular commotion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

This week Albers' emotionless abstractions went on exhibition in two Manhattan galleries at once. They were composed mostly of straight lines and right angles, thinly painted in pure colors. Coming at a time when many abstractionists content themselves with syrup, tar, mustard, muscle and a soup spoon, Albers' reticent craftsmanship was a welcome change of diet-thin, but digestible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothing Definite | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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