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Word: aver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich., agreed in late January to an aver age wage-fringe boost of 960 an hour over the next 42 months. Last week Copper Range sharply raised the price of its copper, from a pre-strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikes: Still in the Trenches | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Your story "Smoking & Safety" [Sept. 1] misleads in regard to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. On Aug. 25 we tested some filters made by the Strickman group in order to be informed of the present state of development. Such testing does not indicate, as you aver, that Brown & Williamson is now "satisfied with the Strickman device." That is a conclusion that you formed without any verification from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...Expo 67 can miss seeing the U.S. pavilion. The 20-story geode sic dome looms like a rising sun over the 1,000-acre site on the St. Lawrence; the heavily traveled minirail zips right through it, and every day an aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Disaster or Masterpiece? | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...doctors studied the five-year health records of 11,000 Adventist men over age 30. Among the 850 deaths, only nine were due to lung cancer, whereas 56 such deaths would have been predicted from statewide aver ages. Furthermore, none of the nine who had been killed by lung cancer had been a lifelong Adventist-all had joined the sect after years of smoking. Drs. Lemon and Walden have yet to find a single case of typical lung cancer in an Adventist who never smoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: Adventists' Advantage | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...score, set up another with a 47-yd. pass, and threw 13 yds. for a third. Against Missouri last week, he completed eleven out of 20 passes, for 204 yds. Even so, he is hardly a one-man team. Halfback Farr is a legitimate All-America candidate who has aver aged 6 yds. per carry so far this season. Flanker Harold Busby is a threat to go all the way any time he gets his hands on one of Beban's passes-because he runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.4 sec. Tackle John Richardson (254 Ibs.) and Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: They're Only No. 2 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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