Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southwest," continued Chang, "is a poor agricultural land, but in many localities it is endowed with mineral wealth, such as tin, copper, mercury, and aluminum. Moreover, the desirability of heavy industries in the interior of the country, where the defense is easier than along the coast, is no doubt a matter carrying considerable weight in the planning of post-war reconstruction...
Just before the Big Day, the famed Lamar, Mo. Democrat (circ. 1,300) published an urgent appeal: "We want as many tin and granite cups as we can get for use of the public on Truman Day. The cups will be returned to their owners...
They said that they had spent the entire 17 days together in a room ten feet square. They had slept on mats thrown on the floor. It had been a harrowing experience. Said the tin baron: "There's no mystery." That was all either would...
...Songs. Great popular songs have some distinction of melody, harmony or rhythm. Most popular songs do not- they follow formulas ceaselessly repeated in Tin Pan Alley. So efficiently does the Compos-A-Tune present the Tin Pan Alley formulas that several professional songwriters are already using it as a labor-saving device...
...first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish, seemed to be hurting his mother...