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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bessie smashed with a fierce, unladylike scream at the Florida coast from Fort Lauderdale, 24 miles north of Miami, to the yacht-and villa-spangled shores of Palm Beach. Thundering winds (an anemometer at the Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Vicious Lady | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

For more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Vicious Lady | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Last week, having run up $800 in back rent, Alfred Birnbaum decided he was better off when he was in his small walk-up fiat, sold all his rights to the $15,000 dream house to a New York lawyer for $1,000, to get the blamed thing off his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Dream House | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble. On both sides of the Atlantic, hot words cooled off under the growing realization that the British crisis was a crisis for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

¶EUR Wages must be frozen (but not reduced). Otherwise industry may be forced to lay off workers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Retrenchment | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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