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Word: greyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher -- and Scarcer | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Blood on the Cobblestones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...hulking building with the pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: The Voices of the Land | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Very clearly," I replied. "Through field glasses from about 60 feet. He is getting greyer, but his face has much more animation than I would have guessed from pictures. He never paused to catch his breath as he climbed up Lenin's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Write with the Heart | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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