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Word: way (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higginbottom-no, sir"). All the same, he read his Bible carefully and decided that "the attitude of Jesus was strict and uncompromising. He would not accept the position of being Lord of half my life-He wanted it all . . . I argued and tried to think of some way to get around this demand, but whichever way I turned, there He was . . . At long last I concluded that there would be no peace of mind for me unless I yielded to Him without reservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Padre Sahib | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking and beat my way to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ in the Kitchen | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...writes blonde, fortyish Florence Berger, Cincinnati housewife, in a book which may soon set many another Christian cook to beating her way to Heaven too. Roman Catholic Mrs. Berger's special combination of piety and kitchen skill has produced a new kind of cookbook as redolent of Christian lore as of herbs and spices. This week, as the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa rushed Cooking for Christ into print, Mrs. Berger explained how it all began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ in the Kitchen | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Look, Old Hat. The flood of such pictures in magazines and newspapers was strategically timed. It would coincide with the climax of the American woman's familiar rite, already well under way last week -the annual surrender to the fall fashions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...first relentlessly successful slogans: "You press the button-we do the rest." As other manufacturers ventured into advertising's strange new land, a blaze of new slogans followed: "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," "Pink Pills for Pale People," "Do You Wear Pants?" Slogans temporarily gave way to jingles, alarming forerunners of the singing commercial. Illustrations (the manufacturer's face, Indians, prominent public figures, including President James A. Garfield) were used wildly and sometimes weirdly to catch the customer's eye. Then destiny struck in Chicago; a photographer named Beatrice Tonneson used pictures of live girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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