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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bit Irritated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

When I see a picture, I want to read the story with it right away-and it irritates me just a bit to have the adjacent printed matter deal with something totally different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...there is one bright side to the picture. Remember what a shock it was the first time you saw Mickey Rooney, the sprite and very juvenile Puck of a few years back, pitching in a parked car with some uncomfortably adolescent bit of fluff. Well, just imagine how much more horrible it would be to see a slinky Shirley sipping her Mumms Extra Dry under the subdued lights of the Stork or the Ritz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH | 5/14/1940 | See Source »

...largest (4,834,902 tons), is within the Allies' reach and out of Germany's at ports around the world. In conducting their blockade of Scandinavia, the Allies need no longer judge between essentials for the Scandinavians and possible contraband for Germany. Though stretched and strained a bit by new German threats from Norway's headlands, the northern blockade can now be absolute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Balance on Norway | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...fourth largest U. S. bank. His quarrel with the New Deal began in 1938. Late that year SEC, threatening to delist its stock, charged that Transamerica's registration statement contained "false and misleading statements." Old A. P., a born battler, haled SEC to court. While still there, SEC bit him again. Bank of America was accused of helping Timetrust, an investing company which owns Bank of America stock, in a "device, scheme and artifice to defraud" buyers of its certificates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: $30,000,000 for Giannini | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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