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Word: tears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story came to the Science Editor's attention via advance tear sheets of a new monthly technical magazine called Audio Engineering. Carefully checked with its author, Inventor S. (for Sidney) Young White, the story described the gadget, told what it could do, and suggested some aspects of its possible ultrasonic future-such as killing bacteria, breaking up suspensions of solid particles, precipitating smoke and dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...newest and youngest of radio's women's home companions is 27-year-old Florence Pritchett, a bejeweled, baritone-voiced ex-model who takes the air as "Barbara Welles." Flossy's voice is husky, refined and thrillingly intimate as she says: ". . . Tear crisp green leaves of four-times-washed spinach into appetizing pieces. Moisten with French dressing and toss together in salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Personality | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...housewife's problems changed. Last week, before a Republican Congress could do it, the Department of Agriculture ended sugar rationing for consumers. The housewife could tear up her tattered ration books, look her grocer in the eye, demand five, ten, or 20 lbs. of sugar. Price controls were kept. But how long she could expect to get all the sugar she wanted was something else. Unless human nature had changed since the days of the war's black markets, many still-rationed bakers, candymakers and other industrial users would soon be bidding heavily for her supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Decontrolled | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelldown | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...expected, organized labor roared. For one thing, labor had had protection from injunctions for 15 years. Phil Murray cried that the amendments would "tear up all the collective bargaining contracts in the country . . . put the Government's power squarely behind big employers." He was exaggerating. Labor tried to show that the whole thing was a National Association of Manufacturers' plot. The A.F.L. shouted at Congressmen in full-page newspaper advertisements: "Don't be a NAM fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The New Labor Rules | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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