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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office, President Alvarez sounded an optimistic note-for the future. Said she: "We have shows from all of the TV networks and a small staff (22). Maybe that way we can prove it needn't take years to get into the black." Standing by, Business Partner George Cameron said, grinning happily: "We can keep going if the oil wells keep pumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Philosopher Berlin was still observing. He had returned to Oxford to take up his old job lecturing on philosophy at New College, after teaching for a year at Harvard. In the British weekly Time and Tide he told what he had learned about the postwar U.S. university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Too Many Helpers | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30 weeks a year (14 weeks of opera, eight of theater, six of ballet, two of modern dance), should operate a minimum of 40 weeks. And, says he, "I'll take 52 weeks straight if I can get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wings for Firebird | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Roper indicated that the clause now seems too indefinite for interpretation and application. Any conclusions reached at the forthcoming meetings over the problem, however, would take immediate effect...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Navy Will Check 'Informer Clause' To Determine Correct Application | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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