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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the 220, Patton and Stanfield again ran like a team to the halfway mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Last Hundred | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Razzle-Dazzle Start. New York's brand-new WFDR is expected to be a model of union entertainment and salesmanship. Last week's 2½hour inaugural broadcast from the stage of Carnegie Hall saw WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Laboring Voice | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Every week dozens of new chemicals come to Sloan-Kettering from commercial laboratories, chemical houses, university scientists and medical men. Each is catalogued and given a number (to head off charges of favoritism). The more interesting ones, thought to have strong biological effects, are tried on experimental cancers planted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

On Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State three weeks ago, a mining engineer hauled up a drill-core laden with ore from a 6,000-ft. test borehole. In Johannesburg Essayists announced that on the basis of the sample, the gold ore under Erfdeel ("Inheritance") farm might be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Free State Fiasco | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

The canal from Florida to Corpus Christi had already proved a lifesaver in World War II. While tankers were being sunk by submarines within sight of the coast, the canal barges were safe from attack. That boomed shipping on the canal from 7,000,000 tons (prewar) to a peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Link | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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