Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spank as a routine punishment, but don't hesitate to use a "gentle slap" if the child gets hysterical and needs it "to refocus his own attention...
...Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future use...
...readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted on the use of a few stock phrases ("As it must to all men, Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences of the early days of TIME were tricks that he and Luce, both Greek scholars...
...holdings in the Central to Alleghany Corp., putting Alleghany's C. & 0. voting power in trust to an outsider, and resigning his board chairmanship of the C. & O. Thus, unless the ICC found some legal barrier, Young would be out of the C. & O. and free to use I.D.S. to buy up to 10% of Central stock, thereby strengthening a controlling interest he could exercise...
Maggie Porter was in high good humor; as vice president of Porter Paint she had helped push its sales over $2,000,000 last year, had boosted her 1949 volume 33% over the same period last year. "Sure," says she, "I use my friends to get business. But then you have to deliver. I see to it that...