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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the Xochimilquenses began to hit water, the municipality gave them some help. It hustled well-digging machinery and pumps out to the canals. It signed a contract with a nearby factory to use its pump during off-hours. As a result, in a single night 396,262 gallons of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Water for Tourists | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

TV's Funnyman Milton Berle was getting no laughs out of Met Soprano Dorothy Kirsten. Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Perfection. To Landowska, "this is my last will and testament. I have to make it perfect." She was taking plenty of time to make it that way-to make sure that exactly the balance and quality she wanted to hear would come off the wax. In her weekly sessions, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandma Bachante | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

That time it was the wrong club. He banged the ball eight feet beyond the hole, missed the putt coming back for a one-over-par four. When Sam got no better than par on the 18th, he gave a horde of newsmen one glum look: "It was that damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Damned Seventeenth | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

It had been a topsy-turvy tournament, played over a killing course in heat up to 96°. Six former champions (including Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson) could not place among the first 51 at the halfway point and were eliminated. So was Jimmy Demaret, usually one of big-league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Damned Seventeenth | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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