Search Details

Word: conservee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

> "If your bartender takes his time in waiting on each customer, you will conserve a surprising amount of whiskey in the course of a day. ... A few seconds spent chatting with each customer will serve the double purpose of conserving whiskey and creating good will."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Carstairs Cautions | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Raj Has Failed | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

U.S. motorists last week had better reason than ever to heed Rubberman Dewey's advice: "Conserve the tires you now have."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

> To conserve power, 4 o'clock nightclubs and dance halls were ordered closed at 2:30 or 3, movies and theaters be tween 11:30 and 12.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Efficient Argentines | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Nonetheless Consolidated bought itself a notable bargain. Despite its name, the V-loan is especially designed to persuade a war manufacturer to go all-out now without worrying about the pains of sudden victory. In V-loan contracts, interest automatically stops if & when an order is canceled. Further, the maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Virtue of V-Loans | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

First | Previous | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | Next | Last