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Word: mysticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinking Prices. In the drop, some bears unquestionably made a quick neat profit-since the "short interest" was already at its peak (TIME, May 30). As the market opened this week, it dropped again. A test was at hand of the mystic level of 163.12, the low mark made in the 1946 crash, which all subsequent drops had failed to penetrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Testing the Floor | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...staffers he is something of a mystic, inclined to mull over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...scholarly, mystic man who led a life of celibate solitude, De Falla began work in 1928 on a great oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, based on the Catalonian epic poem, La Atlantida, by Jacinto Verdaguer. When De Falla's Atlantida was finished, he used to tell Argentine friends, he wanted the first performance to be in Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mystery in Madrid | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

After teaching Williams the secret grip and tattooing him with the mystic symbol, the C.I.O. set out to bring Michigan's Democratic Party into the lodge, too. This involved rescuing it from the A.F.L. (who controlled the Michigan delegation to the Democratic National Convention) and from jealous old-line party members who showed an unrealistic persistence in demanding space on the political scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Helping Hand | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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