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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know yet . . ." said Unruh, in a matter-of-fact voice, "but it looks like a pretty good score." Why are you killing people? "I don't know," he said. "I can't answer that yet-I'm too busy. I'll have to talk to you later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Throws Hard | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

What did Scottie Wilson want? He gave a simpler answer than any vouchsafed by the Kafkas and Sartres. Burred Scottie: "I don't mind as long as I've got enough money for a few cigarettes and me kippers. Money doesn't matter to me. The only reason I'd like to have any is so that I could make people happy. I'd like to give my pictures away to people who really like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scottie's World | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Model. What makes a face and a figure worth $40 an hour? The answer to that lies in the way Lisa Fonssagrives works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers, give Martin a chance to answer with signed prohibitionist editorials in the Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor v. Publisher | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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