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Word: bin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a seven-foot dike and to plug a break in the Ouse River's banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hell & High Water | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...western countries of South America are running out of the blue chips of international exchange.Chile's war-won pile of U.S. dollars has shrunk. The dollar balances of Bolivia and Peru, never impressive, now look like peanuts. Ecuador's hoard, despite a bin-busting rice crop, has leveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Dollars to Peanuts | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...more curio than classic, but it has the natural charm of a genuine, if unimportant, antique. Coxere (pronounced Coxery) was a cut above the average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Log Book | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Deep Dish. In Tuckahoe, N.Y., Mrs. Lathrop Barnaskey heard a crash in her cellar, found that a pastry truck had filled her coal bin with pies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Dort bin ich sehr intim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Maxim's Is Back | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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