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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck by your item that South Pacific will take in $3,000,000 [in a year], while the speculators will take $8,000,000 from it [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...progressive education which has stemmed from the inspiration of [John Dewey's] experiments at Chicago has produced a generation of sloppy-minded youngsters who can neither read nor write. His take-what-you-like educational system, with its repudiation of the discipline that comes with difficult study, has turned loose a citizenry that is an easy prey for demagogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...triumphant Democrats were led by Richardson Dilworth, firebrand Yale-trained lawyer, ex-Marine major, and local leader of the Fair Dealing Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.). Working with him was Joseph Sill Clark Jr., a Chestnut Hill socialite. As treasurer and controller respectively, two new Democratic officials will take charge of the city's much-abused purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: From the Mire | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Along the creek runs, the hollows and slate hills where they take coal from the ground, the hard-bitten and taciturn West Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: It'd Better Be Good | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Airborne Stowaway | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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