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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of economic security." Members of the faculty as well as students, he said, have expressed a need for an ideological meeting ground between American and foreign groups who are interested in the formation of a third social force as an alternative to the extremes of the Left and Right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Industrial Democracy Group Will Renew Activities in Fall | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...good players have their reward-free games to those who reverence the machine and will not tilt, who use the flippers at the right time and the right place. When the final score is all added up in the end, the machine, with its unfailing precision, indicates how many more games can be played without the insertion of a nickel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mirabile Visu | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends, that Juanita got headed for that "right role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Right Voice. Said Rodgers: "What an actress!" Said Hammerstein: "And what a voice!" They signed her to play Bloody Mary. When audiences and critics agreed with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Juanita switched to champagne ("I love the stuff, and then I feel so bloody rich") and began shopping for a 14-room house to replace her apartment on Manhattan's St. Nicholas Terrace. Says she: "I want to make big money because I want to be comfortable myself, as who doesn't, and because there are a lot of people I want to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After 21 Years | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...from Bashful Bend {20th Century-Fox} is a wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which to most right-minded Grable fans will seem an impertinent piece of lese majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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