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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shame that a great nation should take a stab at a great world.leader after he is down. There are thousands of people who know China and the Chinese people, who believe the catastrophe could have been avoided as late as 1948, but our "statesmen" could not see the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...think that labor has got to be just as big as industry in seeing that the right [bargaining] results are reached. If labor is not big enough, then we have got to fight the thing out. That is the way I look at bargaining. If they think we are wrong, they strike us, see? That is the way this thing should work. It is a hell of a good way to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: See? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Said the ad in the Wall Street Journal: "Management needs person or corporation to take complete charge of sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Too Big to Handle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Sere & Yellow. In Iona, Fla., Richard Thompson, 90, calmly threw away his 40-year-old false teeth because they were getting in the way of four new molars just coming through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently to shout "Great Heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wheeler's Progress | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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