Search Details

Word: wings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sixth century as it had in its first five. True, two members of the Labor Cabinet (Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, Food Minister John Strachey) wear the black-&-blue old school tie, and are proud of it. So do six Labor and 57 other M.P.s, such left-wing literati as Cyril Connolly and George Orwell. But many a Briton was finding it hard last week to visualize Eton in a socialist future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Schools | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Already the Office has shut down its third-floor suite of rooms in Weld and, despite the renewed mass of business in the fall, all the work will be conducted in offices on two floors in the south wing. Robinson Hall will remain as a clearinghouse for book authorizations until Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Office Will Shed Burdens; Monro Prepares to Assume Control | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Above the green woods and fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smoke in Maryland | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...instance, the job of letting prospective readers know what TIME is and what it tries to do-as well as telling them and our readers what TIME is doing. When it is time for subscriptions to be renewed, that is Pratt's job, too. Under his wing also is a newsstand division which sees that the proper number of copies arrive at the proper U.S. newsstands from coast to coast on time for our readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Both left and right wing among College political groups supported the creation of the infant organization, with the HLU and the Republican Open Forum issuing statements that they hoped that in this way AYD sympathizers would be easily recognizable, rather than be carrying on a sub rosa existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives Approval for HYD Chapter | 5/27/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | Next