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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

The heavy casualties, said Dr. Moyer, need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Preventable Deaths | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Never before had Santa Claus worked so hard to give U.S. retailers a merry Christmas. Across the land merchants brought him into their towns, "straight from the North Pole," in sleds, cars and by parachute. By last week, it looked as if Santa had been almost done to death.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: Sad Santa | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Harvard students backed the plan in weekend petitions, as almost 400 undergraduates promised to stay in Cambridge during Christmas if the University would let girls share their showers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Girls Jump at Shower-Sharing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Editors calculated that if each of the 1700 University students from the New York area complied, 6,092,800 gallons of water would be saved.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Girls Jump at Shower-Sharing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

One clause of the new regulations, however, limits the power of these stations to around a tenth of what they had been using. WHRB and about seventy other stations send their programs through steam pipes and coaxial cables, a process which takes a lot of power. If the cut is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Beam | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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