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Word: patch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visits the U.S. next week he will doubtless get the welcome appropriate to a national liberator and the Premier of the world's second most populous country. Yet no matter how the motorcycles' sirens scream or the ticker tape flutters, his U.S. reception will not be a patch on the welcome he got two weeks ago in his ancestral home, Srinagar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Marching Through Kashmir | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Moors Hall residents remained temporarily phoneless yesterday as workmen continued to patch the damage to the central bell desk and adjacent area caused by the $10,000 fire September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moors Improvises Without Telephones | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...

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

...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 600 Men & a Machine | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...retailers mad when a sudden cut in the retail price of Palm Beach suits (fixed by Fair Trade laws in 45 states) forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize men's light-weight suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOAKS & SUITS: Stitch in Time | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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