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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR CAPTION "YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER" AND MENTION OF 14% HIGHER INCIDENCE OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AMONG THOSE USING A SWIMMING POOL OVEREMPHASIZE DANGERS OF SWIMMING POOLS [TIME, JULY 12]. 14% CORRECTLY QUOTED BUT [FIGURE IS] UNFORTUNATELY ERRONEOUS. CORRECT FIGURE IS 7% AND INDICATES NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCIDENCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO USED AND THOSE WHO DID NOT SWIM IN POOL. WELL MANAGED SWIMMING POOLS OFFER NO EXCESSIVE HAZARD EXCEPT IN FACE OF EPIDEMIC OR TO THOSE EXCEPTIONALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO EAR OR SINUS INFECTION. MODERN MOTHERS MAY SING OLD TUNE BUT SHOULD CHANGE OLD WORDS TO ". . . AND PLOP RIGHT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot be set in the frame of an old picture or traced on an old design." Hoffman observed afterward: "They all said 'yes' except one or two, who said 'yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Sense of Urgency | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Soviet U.N. spokesman for more than two years, waved goodbye to Manhattan, sailed for home. To the press he was as laconic as ever. Was he happy to be going home? "Yes, I am glad . . ." Did he expect to come back? "I hope not." What about the U.N.? "It absolutely must succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...told her he did not think the place suited her personality. He said he would find her something better. A few days later, he escorted her to a spacious six-room apartment, so lavishly appointed that the girl's eyes popped. "Oh, Howard," she breathed, "this is wonderful!" "Yes," said Howard drily, "there's only one thing that worries me-can you afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...colors before me, and I play with them. With my stick, I direct them onto the canvas. The black is the bass and the blue is the piano. I say to the yellow, 'I am coming for you,' and to the pink, 'Stay quiet.' Yes, when I paint I am the conductor-like Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Conductor with a Brush | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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