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Word: banke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Jazz Hot was doing its best to unfuddle bop, curious and carefully shellacked socialites, fringe-faced Left-Bank intellectuals, and, of course, les zazous éternels (hepcats) were packing Paris' big, modern Salle Pleyel to dig the "true groove" for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do You Get It? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Planting Time | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Harvest. Today, at 51, Pfister is the president and major stockholder of a bank which once refused him a loan. He employs 107 full-time workers, and in the weeks of "detasseling" (just before the strains are pollinated) recruits 1.500 helpers from nearby high schools. His payroll is $400,000 a year, the value of his land and equipment $1,800,000. He is a smart businessman and works hard at it, but looks tired and bored in his office. His eyes light up only when he gets out in a field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Planting Time | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts as he sits, lonely and bewildered, on a river bank at the school...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...Club, which was first suggested on April 19, has 39 members, in addition to its charter, and a "favorable bank balance." The club has yet to fix a location definitely, but it plans to rent a clubhouse, at least until it is established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sphinx, New Final Club, Is Approved by Council | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

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