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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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I suspect that for my luxury, some $10,000 are spent (a wild guess based on 30 rooms each with 30-odd chairs, at $10 a chair) at a time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

When the Sun Is Down

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

You betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

It is merely descriptive prose of what happens out here in the West. I suggest that you arrange to arrive at Quaking Aspen Meadow in the Sierras when it comes on toward night, and the sun is down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes are beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Merry Chase. The prospect of peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Magic Formula | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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