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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Betty Randall, formerly in the Rainbow Room, who now sings for the National Broadcasting Company, will add feminine charm, singing a few of the latest song hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAB CALLOWAY TO APPEAR AT SMOKER | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...Add to this Freudian potpourri a father in love with snails, and scores of definitely unattractive adolescents in heavy shoes and long dresses showing figures at their worst, and you have "sweet sixteen, youth smiling through its tears"--while the onlooker bites his fingernails in depressed frustration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

...felt this could be proved if two things happened: 1) if only 10% of Illinois' Democrats voted for Garner-and thus against Term III; 2) if Mr. Dewey's G. O. P. vote equaled or nearly equaled Mr. Roosevelt's Democratic vote. John Garner can add. He wanted to add up the Republican vote and the Garner vote to show Mr. Roosevelt that, if he runs, he will inevitably lose Illinois, a key State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Nebraska and Illinois Primaries | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...group of earnest and powerful men, including Henry Ford and the late Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation, forgathered in Dearborn, Mich., five years ago, to add to the three rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a fourth right of man: the "right of self-maintenance." This grandiose program started the National Farm Chemurgic Council, whose purpose is to find and exploit industrial uses for farm products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Chemurgy | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...wish therefore to propose . . . the obvious solution: that the University make arrangements with the Turkish government to purchase the entire stocks of black samite veils, which were seized at the time of the confiscation of the late Sultan's harem, and add them to the waitresses' uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/26/1940 | See Source »

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