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Word: long (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Makes Me Dizzy..." At 460 feet: "Now the fireworks are really starting...There's a creature that looks like a long pipe with a row of lights along it. I don't know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long gazed upward with Red stars in his eyes,* took a searching look about him at the state of science in a world of ideological struggle and bounced off the party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazer | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...this the traditional summer rise (since 1897 the market has registered an average midsummer gain of 16% over the spring lows) or the beginning of a long upward pull? One Philadelphia broker thought "Those who now remain on the sidelines might find themselves among the crowd scrambling for stocks 20 points higher." But many were still pessimistic. The mid-August short interest was 2,006,119 shares, a 17-year high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Reduce the tax on long-term capital gains to 10% (present maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...long will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and down behind chairs and sofas shooting off cap guns. [But at present] no end...is in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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