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Word: laws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...law, but having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...hand that leveled an accusing finger at the S.R.L. looked as if it held a fat blue pencil of its own. Last October, the Nation had commissioned Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell to write an article on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harold C. Field, executive editor of the Nation, told Rodell he was delighted with it. But later he said that he and Freda Kirchwey, Nation editor & publisher, wanted a few changes made, notably in Rodell's criticisms of Justice Frankfurter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whose Blue Pencil? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Midwest hooted at Mary and Joseph Pugmire and threw them into jail. It was against the law to preach in the streets. Between jail terms, on March 4, 1888, Mary Pugmire bore her first child. In the next 14 years, between Hallelujah-singing and evangelizing in the U.S., Canada and England, she bore six more. Her first child was son Ernest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline,† to Australian-born George Lyndon Carpenter. But Pugmire turned it down; his heart, strained by years of work, travel and dedication, was not up to the job, which went to Albert W. T. Orsborn, son-in-law of the late General Higgins. Pugmire became commissioner of the U.S. Vested with more authority than any other U.S. churchman-his command over his four territories is absolute-he is still a diligent, humble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Tony has no respect for the law of electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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