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Word: weekends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Streeters have had an uneasy feeling about long holiday weekends ever since 1946. That year, after a three-day Labor Day weekend, they came back to work in a restful and unsuspecting mood, only to see the big wartime bull market collapse in six days of heavy selling. Last week, after the three-day Memorial Day weekend, they came back feeling pretty nervous. They had reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Testing the Floor | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...hundred Business School alumni are streaming back to Cambridge this weekend to attend the nineteenth annual Business School Alumni Conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Alumni Open Conference | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

...this highly contrived excuse for a series of monologues weren't sleazy enough, Author Wylie has three of the book's five female characters offer their beautiful bodies to Character Wylie in the course of one feverish weekend, which is the time limit of the action. It is significant that Character Wylie rejects these offers in order to have more chance to talk...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Wylie Puts Good Ideas Into Cheap Novel--'Opus 21' | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Normand R. Cartier, instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to an assistant professorship in that department, Provost Buck announced over the weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Get Posts As Instructors In Languages | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

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