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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to favoring a survey, the 2582 students voting approved of nutritional variety in College food, and felt, by a small majority, that foods in individual meals went well together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Votes 4-1 for Food Survey; Houghteling Sees No Rivals to NSA | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...LOUIS, Feb. 28--A group of the nation's leading educators--including President Conant--went on record today against any form of federal aid for private or sectarian schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...turned out, things in Nashua were not as bad as people had feared. Working together, the union, a citizens' committee and Little had managed to save 1,200 of the jobs. But that did not quiet Tobey. As a one-man senatorial committee, he went after Little where he looked the most vulnerable. He attacked the bewildering hodgepodge of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts which hold title to most of the property in Little's $60-million textile empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Fantastic Picture | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

When sales of Kaiser-Frazer cars went into a slump recently, K-F cut production from 675 to 350 units a day rather than cut prices. Last week, its annual report showed why it had no choice. Though its sales had increased 24% to $341,500,000, its 1948 profit, before taxes, had risen only 2%. And after taxes, the profit of $10 million was little more than half that of 1947, when no taxes were paid. In effect, K-F could not afford to cut prices because it was making less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Squeeze on K-F | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...prepared to acclaim O'Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats had barely looked into Dostoevsky. Appalled by such duplicity and filled with hatred of the new Eire's clerical atmosphere, O'Casey packed up and went to England, where his pure heart is still parked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaum to the Last | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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