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Word: bringing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Trouble with Ghosts | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revivified Christendom? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Then there is the problem of Pennsylvania, Bingham is entitled to his opinion that Penn subsidizes football by scholarships, and I am not sure he is wrong; but it was a poor idea to bring this up now. For one thing, Harvard has not played Penn since 1942, so why bother discussing it at all? For another, Bingham should have realized that even if he was speaking as a private individual his position as head of the HAA implies that this is the official University opinion on Pennsylvania...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...daytime when you wear them in the nighttime," and that "through understanding comes mutual admiration," or maybe vice verse. Mr. Singh reversed himself on this proposition by getting tangled up in the converse a few times, but he is obviously for the United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures in his native dance, and that two India dancing girls can converse with these without using anything else besides a sari. He also edified the local population by demonstrating how to wrap a turban and how to hit a drum...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: THE DANCE | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...actual results of the government's power programs have been to increase the country's capacity and to bring this new electricity to areas which had inadequate power or no power at all. The reduced rates also proved the elasticity of demand for electricity. Private companies, who complained that they were being undersold, reduced their prices and found that they made more money...

Author: By Edward J. Shack, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

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