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Word: thinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that was something, you should have seen them senior picnics," he said. "Why they used to drink a gallon of beer apiece and all sobered up by jumping in the bay and trying to catch a greased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...that he now has three working partners: A. Baker Barnhart, who has charge of all packaging, product and transportation design; William Snaith, who manages all department-store work; Business Manager John Breen. There are branch offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, South Bend, Ind. and London. All of his designers think so much like him that, says an admiring rival, "If you meet any one of them you meet Loewy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Only by a free competition, unhampered by government controls or private cartels, does the commission think the job can be done. Said the report: "Competition is not a one-sided concept. Our insistence on the opportunity to compete with others carries with it an obligation to let others freely compete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Two Billion a Year | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Years later she wondered why "the mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot Freudianized tract against racial segregation, which is certain to anger even more Southerners than her Strange Fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tract from the South | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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