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Word: writes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, I suspect, would maintain that their ability to write English correctly and effectively could not be improved. No matter what one's channels of endeavor. one should try to write his own language as well as possible. Punctuation is probably the aspect to which the least attention is paid these days: yet it is an essential, and no mere refinement...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: On the Shelf | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

...write to you to express my admiration for your July 13 article on Earl Long. It is an exceptionally fine piece of reporting, evoking all the seemingly unbelievable Faulknerian overtones of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

SECONDARY BOYCOTTS : The committee bill forbids unions, i.e., the Teamsters, to write contracts prohibiting management from handling so-called hot cargo-cargo from firms having labor trouble. The Administration wants a broad ban on all kinds of secondary boycotts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Moving Hot Cargo | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Aware that North German Lloyd was synonymous with service, Bertram and Kulenkampff set up a hotel and restaurant in Bremen to hold together stewards and cooks, placed seamen on other ships until jobs were ready for them. With $22 million in government loans and fast tax write-offs, they quickly built up a fleet of new freighters, now have 40 in service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Return of the Bremen | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...mysterious, and something the quicker over with the better. I came along and told the same story without inhibition or aggression or a chip on the shoulder. And what happened? Now Lutherans up in the Northwest and Scotch Irish down in Georgia and Italians in Connecticut, they write and tell me, 'This is my mother and this is our house.' The identity is broader than we knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Will Rogers | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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