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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In his long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Gottwald's party got 40% of the vote in Czechoslovakia's last election (TIME, June 10, 1946). Since then he had, in fact, been losing ground. Soviet failure to deliver promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bread, Votes & Treason | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

A capacity crowd overflowed the institute of Geographical Exploration's large lecture room and was forced to move to the New Lecture Hall last night to hear W. H. Auden deliver the last in the University's series of lectures marking the fourth centenary of the birth of Miguel Cervautes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Auden Delivers Poet's Views of Don Quixote | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

Argentina's farmers won an important, if limited, victory. For months they had complained because the Perón government paid them just $1.35 a bushel for their wheat and sold it abroad for as much as $5.75 (TIME, Sept. 29), keeping the difference to pay for the "fiveyear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Farmers Win | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

And though investors had bought Texas Eastern shares at 67 times the price promoters had paid for their shares, they bought no pig in a poke. With contracts already signed to buy gas at an average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Make a Buck | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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