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Word: jumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem so formidable. In the past decade consumer credit went up nearly three and a half billion dollars a year, and mortgage debts rose nearly eleven billion a year. Gross savings, at thirty seven billion in 1947, are predicted to jump to a hundred billion by 1970. The increase in debt incurred by the Harris plan would, in this respect, be relatively small...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: 'Education on the Cuff' | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...Moss, in his whimsical way, is kidding. Perhaps he is really interested less in reality and illusion than in money, which most of his characters spend their time discussing. (His heroine is the richest woman in the world, a sharp old cookie in gold slacks, who makes her associates jump through all sorts of hoops in hopes of getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Folding Green | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

...Democrats trying to fit the election returns into their own futures. They were scattered across the world and, individually, they practiced political yoga in Puerto Rico, foreign-policy pushups in Paris, telephone calisthenics in Texas, crosscountry running from California, deep-breathing exercises in New Jersey, and the running broad jump in Alaska. For their wondrous hex-athlon and a wide-eyed look into the gymnasium, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...cars daily, up about 40% from last year. In France, Simca alone expects to turn out 210,000 cars in 1958, v. 170,000 in 1957, while the industry as a whole will top the 1,000,000 mark for a 100% increase in the last four years. Biggest jump of all: West Germany, which made 958,967 cars in 1957, will boost production to 1,500,000 units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Day of the Babies | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, Richard C. Carroll, however, considers such fun juvenile, and the IFC, always one jump ahead of the administration, is discouraging it. So strong is their self-restraint, that some fraternities are considering shortening pledging and promoting social service work...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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