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Word: borrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled line can make during a week. For this reason the air coaches take off only when they have a full load. They try to book several weeks in advance, but in many cases they do not fill up a flight by take-off time. When this happens they borrow passengers from other independent lines or delay the flight until they can round up a full complement. With no empty seats, the non-scheduled lines are able to cut down their cost easier than the scheduled lines...

Author: By Howard L. Kastol, | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...world -the cemeteries are full of great people who never made a name. And what has success got to do with art anyway? Everybody can't be top man. If you love painting, the only reward you need is to paint." é"Of course every artist has to borrow from others. Picasso is the greatest thief of them all, but still, when he walks down a street he keeps his eyes open." é"The reason I like painting from nature is that you can't beat it. God is the greatest artist. You can't imagine anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obiter Dicta | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...last place to find steady crowds right through the Christmas shopping season is the public library. In Atlanta, things were different this December, and with reason. A few days after Thanksgiving, the city threw open its enlarged and vigorously modernized main building; the customers crowded in all month to borrow books, or just to browse, at a rate that astonished old library hands. In what was supposed to be an "off month," there were hardly enough seats to go round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salesman in Atlanta | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...self-instructions read "get ec hymarx" and "borrow George's notes." Vag looked around for his gooseneck lamp to turn it on and make sure he read correctly, but he couldn't find it. He looked around the dimly lit room and realized that he was back at school. Vag droopped the calendar on the floor, lay back with his eyes shut and began to make an adjustment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/4/1951 | See Source »

Live Along. Paddy still yearned to get rich, but meantime, harried by friends who already want to borrow money from him, he scooped up his family, padlocked his hogans, leaving only the pigs, and headed for the hills. He left behind a crudely lettered cardboard sign: "Please don't take anything out of my place and live along [leave alone] my pig . . . From Paddy Martinez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: How to Find Uranium | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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