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Word: notted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It could be true, as cantankerous Andrew Jackson Gillis kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Old Zamg | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

All Is Bright. Homer would not be moved. "This year I'm going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Noisy Night | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

His system was simple. He erected a corrugated-tin "clubhouse" on land (which he leased but did not own) in the oak-shaded canyon bottom. Then he lured aging citizens 34 miles from Los Angeles by offering free bus rides and free lunches. From the clubhouse he allowed them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Yant dutifully sank a well, not near the canyon bottom as Samovia had expected, but high on his own hilly acres. To every one's amazement he hit oil: 2,000 barrels a day. He sank four more wells, brought in a producer every time.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The British are known to favor recognition, chiefly and frankly because they want to safeguard their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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