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Word: cinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mating to Order. Dr. Bissonnette found it a cinch to tamper with nature's timetable.* He put all sorts of creatures in quarters with blinds to exclude the daylight and electric lights to simulate it. To make a species mate to order, he had only to control properly the length of the indoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientific Cupid | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

While American Leaguers edged up on the magic 30 games, the National League -which is traditionally famed for classy pitching-hadn't one pitcher who was a cinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Thirty | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Last month "Vanport Center College" opened for business in the half-deserted city's junior high school. Ideaman Epler had talked 17 vacationing Oregon professors into teaching the first session. It was a cinch to sign up 221 students, all but 14 of them veterans. In Vanport City, the students and their families found cheap apartments ($30 to $47.50 a month), nursery schools, stores, theaters, a hospital and library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Vanport Idea | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Cinch. In Bay City, Mich., Peter Pipe took over as president of the Master Plumbers' Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What's the Good Word? | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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