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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That explanation might do for the pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mercy Killings | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...year or so, thinks Dr. Nelson, it may be ready for general use. What is slowing him up is the difficulty of getting enough virulent spirochetes from rabbits. The work opens up the possibility of vaccination against syphilis. Says Nelson cautiously: "If enough spirochetes were available, then it might be possible that they could be so treated that they could be used as a vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Than the Wassermann? | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: If Wishes Were Ballplayers | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right to Sell | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Since this and previous surveys showed that there were more small investors in the market than most brokers had thought, Hornblower & Weeks last week opened a new $100,000 office in Chicago designed chiefly for the convenience of small traders. Example: it had 20 small offices where timid customers might discuss their affairs in privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Fry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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