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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a week, every time the Americans picked up a London paper they read about their well-stocked larder. Cracked Hogan, coldly: "Next time I guess we'll have to leave our clubs at home and just have a meat show." The little Texan, not recovered from his near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steaks & Stymies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Many Rhode Islanders, including prominent doctors, regarded voluntary insurance as the only way to stave off compulsory health insurance. By their delaying tactics, the doctors were flirting with the bogeyman they most feared.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Doctors' Delay | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

On a concrete court at the Los Angeles Tennis Club this week, 21-year-old Pancho Gonzales faced Ted Schroeder for the last time. With less difficulty than he had in the finals of the National Singles at Forest Hills, Amateur Champion Gonzales dusted off his old enemy (6-3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goodbye & Hello | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

The nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Citizens of Vancouver | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week Editor Wang's staff pleaded guilty again in an editorial: Ta Rung Pao had been so dull that the "comparatively backward elements" whom the Communists are seeking to convert "do not like to read the paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bourgeois Beats | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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