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Word: perie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Representative Robert Mollohan, subcommittee chairman, noted that from Jan. 1, 1950 to June 1, 1955, Class I railroads (those with annual revenues of at least $1,000,000) bought 310,853 new freight cars under fast write-offs. But they junked 342,287 cars during the same peri od, for a net loss of 31,434 cars. As a result, railroads and shippers are now being badly pinched by a freight-car shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Too Much Incentive? | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...down to business'." Though his majority was small, he announced bold projects to cure Italy's nagging ills, and acted as if he expected to launch them forthwith. Living up to his reputation as Italian Communism's chief scourge, which he had earned as De Gas-peri's Minister of the Interior, Scelba began auspiciously by ejecting Communist organizations from the lush premises they had seized from former Fascist owners and by evacuating government-employee unions (mostly Communist-run) from government-owned buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Immobilismo | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...ordinary citizen will hardly be familiar with zarfs (cuplike stands for small coffee cups), yauds (work horses) or vugs (small rock cavities), and he may also be surprised to learn that a varus man is bowlegged, that an od is a theoretical force, that a peri is a type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Beek in Glory | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

British Israelites are partial to an unorthodox philological theory that holds the English language to be derived from Hebrew. Thus bar (son) reappears in the British "bairn"; peri (fruit) in "berry"; katon (little) in "kitten." The word "British" is simply a rendering of Berit-ish (covenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: C-Day at the Pyramid | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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