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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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But in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, there was no cause for complaint except perhaps that hunters got their daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks Away | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Color with Dots. RCA's system, called "dot interlacing," is entirely electronic, needs no spinning disc. In the transmitting camera are three tubes. In front of them is a system of "dichroic mirrors" (see below) which allow each tube to "see" in one color only. All three tubes scan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

When Rafael was bora in 1914, Jan Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. William Saroyan, 41, literary show-off (he has admitted to being a genius) and champion of "the beautiful people" in short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), hit plays (The Time of Your Life) and novels (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 24, New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

The biggest news, quite naturally, was made by the man who is supposed to guide the U.S. fiscal policy, Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder. Said he: "The general economic welfare of the country should be the guiding principle in determining . . . whether the federal budget should be balanced." What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Too Many Blank Checks | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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