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Word: redness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...help Garner along, his managers put out a red-white-&-blue handout which sang: ". . . His home is a typical American, West Texas home. . . where many birds, singing their thanks, I imagine, praising God for their happy life, being the guests of that peaceful home. I felt the tears come...

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

...when they travesty them, they are delightful. The Piccoli take-off of a red-hot Negro jazz band going into spasms and contortions of rhythm is brilliant burlesque. So is their exaggeratedly alcoholic and rumba-ridden picture of a Havana nightspot. And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his music, is not only a miracle of string-pulling, but a hilarious parody of 1,001 humbugs who have infested the concert halls of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Show in Manhattan | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...trial opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Privacy in the Bath | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...some were quite bold. I went to one of the [five] private showers, but several other girls were in line for them and I had to stand there and wait my turn. The girl in front of me, I remember, turned and told me that my face was very red. I did feel quite hot. ... I was brought up not to undress in front of other kids and the Board of Education has absolutely no authority to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Privacy in the Bath | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds of thousands in other States), growers of wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, red clover seed, alfalfa, timothy, sweet clover, beans, cowpeas-as potential market for small combines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Flivver Farm Machinery | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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