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Word: tots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three months ago, advertising trade papers carried stories that Byron Keating had opened an advertising agency. When he landed his first account-the Little Tot Food Products Co.-such trade papers as Broadcasting carried the news. Then Advertising Age bulletined that Byron Keating Co. ("Cincinnati's fastest growing agency") was planning a new campaign for Soyscuits, a soybean biscuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Rise of Byron Keating | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...between New York nightclubs and Mayor LaGuardia's bookkeepers: "At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...that the clubs padded the tax charges on guest checks. At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded. The club pays the correct tax, then keeps what's left, said the city, to cover "breakage." Mayor LaGuardia, who, unlike ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, never goes to nightclubs, wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Decor Meets the Law | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...liveliest in the U.S., pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fungus Fighter | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Galled and saddened, C.I.O. President Phil Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green manfully renewed their no-strike pledge. John Lewis was mum. Now that the four-month coal battle was temporarily over, he and the nation could tot up the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Uprising | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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