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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the football department has been keeping him busy in the fall. Although he made his niche on the canvas, his first love is football. "It's a funny thing," Lamar muses, "when I boxed they called me a football player and now that I coach football they call me...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Freshman Coach Lamar Molds Crimson Gridmen | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

An Awful Smell. Meyers got busy. But he was not happy about it. The committee produced transcripts of his worried telephone conversations with Lovett:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Full of Dynamite | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

At first the Government-controlled papers kept quiet; what was left of the opposition press printed glowing stories. Then the Peron party line was passed along. The pro-Perón La Época, charging that the prize had been "granted with political ends," went to town with a caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Case History | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Coach Stiner says that his quarterback on the field doesn't mind having instructions arrive by special messenger: "He's so busy blocking, or carrying the ball." Two weeks ago, against Stanford, Oregon State's press-coop quarterback directed three offensive drives, two of which resulted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Quarterbacking by Telephone | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Down Meat. Such heavy receipts had caused wholesale pork prices in New York and Chicago to drop an average of 20% since the end of September. Since mid-September, the American Meat Institute reported, all wholesale meat prices had dropped 3?-18? a pound. Retailers have been slow to cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Freedom at Work | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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