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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Oops. In Syracuse, N.Y., Chester D. Marcus held hands with Mary Stone at the movies, drew her arm a little closer, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...lecture system is particularly weak when unaccompanied by other elements designed to unify the individual's education and to bring him into closer contact with the faculty. Further experiments with small section groups might lead to a partial fulfillment of this requirement, but the key to the problem, which is perhaps the most dangerous within the educational picture of Harvard today, still lies in tutorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Most Foges enterprises make money, but Future is still in the red, thanks to its printing costs - $1.20 a copy. Nevertheless, it will grow from a quarterly to eight issues this year, go monthly in 1949. It cannot look forward yet to printing in England, but it is getting closer to home. Last week, things being what they were in Czechoslovakia, Foges & Co. planned to transfer their production to Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Future with a Past | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...reviewing the reams of testimony on Young's year-old plea, ICC found all sorts of reasons for saying no. For one thing, any closer alliance between the C. & O. and Central would lessen the "extensive competition" between them, would thus violate the antitrust and interstate commerce laws. For another, "the applicants have not shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: 0.00006% Isn't Enough | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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