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Word: endlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...timbers in here put in long before this was the U. S. A.!" We walked, waded, crawled & scrambled & slid through the endless tunnels-"there's 500 miles of tunnel in this mountain," the boys said-down 200 feet of sharply sloping rock piles, peered down fearful shafts, heard about the mine's famous ghosts and were mighty glad to get out of there, I tell...

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

Hulbert Taft, 62, educated (like Bob and Charlie) at Yale, is a kindly, tall, wizened man whose chief interests, aside from his paper, are horses and music. He uses endless columns in the Times-Star to promote better music for art-loving Cincinnati. His attitude toward employes is friendly, paternalistic. The Times-Star avoids an American Newspaper Guild contract by the simple device of paying better salaries, granting longer vacations than its rival, the Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candidate's Paper | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...ordinary metal casting, molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then removed. After long experiment, several metallurgical manufacturers have devised a way to cast high-grade metal rods continuously-that is, in an endless strip, as newsprint is made. Molten metal is fed from a reservoir to a water-cooled tube. As the metal flows down and out of the tube, a water spray cools it so that it can be continuously withdrawn as a solid rod. The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc. (Boston consultants) states that continuously cast rods are free of air cavities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...killed making the world safe for democracy. The kindly boarder (Joseph Buloff) followed Mama around for three acts and 20 years, finally won her elderly hand as the curtain fell. For realism, there was yet another daughter, mean and ornery as they come. For atmosphere, there was an endless amount of Jewish cooking. For laughs, there was a loud but likable radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...weeks he crows; at 40 weeks he understands No! No!; at one year he speaks two or three words; at 18 months he speaks ten words and begins to drop baby talk; at two years he knows 300 words; at three he speaks sentences, soliloquizes; at four he asks endless, apparently frivolous questions, makes intentional puns (e.g., "Cedar rabbits" for Cedar Rapids); at five talks succinctly and to the point, asks questions because he really wants to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Baby Behavior | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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