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Word: chases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most household goods, payment of the balance in 15 months (if less than $1,000) or 18 months (if above $1,000). Meanwhile the trend toward higher interest rates, which the Treasury and FRB had started by upping their short-term and rediscount rates, continued; the Chase National Bank raised its rates on call money (brokers' loans) from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACTS & FIGURES: One-Third Down . . . | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...admitted knowing that she was a spy.) Many of the people named by Miss Bentley-either as co-spies or as purveyors of confidential Government information-admitted that they knew each other. Three also said that they had been visitors at a small, red brick house in suburban Chevy Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Basement in Chevy Chase | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...best clients had money trouble, too. Last week, the U.S.'s best ballet company, Ballet Theatre, also called it quits for 1948. In its nine seasons, Ballet Theatre toured the U.S., produced brilliant and expensive new ballets. Most of the deficits had been made up by Director Lucia Chase (heiress of a carpet fortune), who also danced leading roles in the company. Her estimated loss so far: $2,000,000. Ballet Theatre would start up again perhaps next year, said Miss Chase, but only if someone else came forward with a little money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What, No Opera? | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not the Heat | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...unexpected pleasure to pick up a leading magazine and find a page devoted to such painters as Sargent, Whistler and Chase [TIME, July 5]. A refreshing change from the emotional, "childlike" painting of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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