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Word: tomes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President. This was the last thing that Author Baruch had expected. Though his report came out as opposed to a separate Office of Demobilization, the proposal of the Senate's Postwar Planner Walter F. George, Baruch had honestly and significantly buttered up Congress throughout his 120-page tome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alarums & Excursions | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Bureau of the Budget is generally thought to be a branch of the Treasury which collects and adds up what the various departments of the Government would like to spend during the coming year, and presents the figures each January in a bulky tome called the U.S. Budget. Except that the Bureau was transferred in 1939 from the Treasury to the Executive Office of the President, this is true. But it is only the starting point, the excuse, for Harold Smith's real assignment. If he had the title that fits his job, he would be called Gen eral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General Manager | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

Thomas Matters of Lowell House and Great Neck, L. I. prepared at Tome School and last week was elected to head the Student Council. He is on the Lowell House Committee and Varsity Tennis Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ames, Matters, Harvey Voted Three Marshals for Class of '43 | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

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