Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new rule there will also be fewer "off-limits," signs which in the past had served chiefly to steer G.I.s to the more interesting hot spots. Said one G.I.: "If it weren't for the off-limits signs, we couldn't have found half the good geisha houses...
...admit that I'm an avid Cardinal fan and that Stan Musial is my favorite player, but even if all that weren't true, I'd still think Ernest Hamlin Baker's Sept. 5 cover one of the cutest and cleverest I have ever seen...
...script meant. The question was: "Does the treaty commit us to arm and aid Europe's armies?" (An old question in a new context). Senator Taft, respected for his brains, answered, "Yes." Senator Dulles, respected for his brains, answered, "No." The rest of the Senators, some respected, some not, weren't agreed either, but they voted for the Pact. An arms bill may pass the Senate, but what the original treaty meant remained a question...
...Governor Adlai Stevenson signed a bill permitting night thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this year. We all know...
...went to see a coal dealer," he wrote, "who was complaining that people weren't yet laying in their winter supply of coal this summer. He gave me the names of some customers and I went around to talk to them...