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Word: chipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked up on nighttime scavenging rounds. Last week the true identity of Harry Smith came to light. The old derelict was a wealthy Harvard man, long respected by his brokers for his canny investments. Total of his estate's assets: about $400,000 in cash, bonds and blue-chip stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...seemed like a belated Christmas to Moye, it was all in the day's work for Humble's 58-year-old, lawyer-trained President Hines Holt Baker of Houston. In the blue-chip game of oil, gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has helped make Humble the No. 1 U.S. producer of crude oil, and more than doubled its output in a decade (from 49 million bbls. in 1940 to 103 million in 1950). It also helped Humble boost its net profit by 66% in 1951's first half, the latest report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Alabama's First Gusher | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...dozen others and damned by the resemblance. It tells of a jockey agent (William Holden), tarnished and down on his luck, and a runaway rich boy (Johnny Stewart) who wants desperately to be a winning jockey; of the race track's poverty-row "characters" who chip in to buy a potential champion; of the crooked gamblers whose attempt to fix the big race through Holden conflicts at the last moment with his fatherly affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...catch. Their failure in marriage began on the wedding night, when Carl got raving drunk. Lilian had neither the intelligence nor the maturity to try to understand Carl, a decent enough fellow when he was not drinking. As time went on, he came to think of her as a chip off the block his cold, superior mother had been hacked from; then his benders became heroic. Big Clara, lusty and human, was all the things the two women in his life had denied him. Whenever he sneaked into her shack in the backyard, he was hitting back at both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Without Gothic | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was a chilly 18th Century aristocrat, diplomat and wit, whose famous letters to his son, designed to make the lad a blue chip off the old block, immortalized their author instead. Reared in the Age of Reason, Chesterfield also became its perfect symbol: a man who saw his time steadily, but never saw through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sage of the Minuet | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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