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Word: positioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Ward, a 6 ft., 200-lb. Boston Irishman, learned to keep his eye on the ball while winning New England's golf championship in 1930. Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach...

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

Until Cripps and Bevin arrived, Washington could not be sure of the British position. But it was known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

The Three Hearts. The U.S. position was summed up by a waggish Washington newsman as having three hearts-the hard heart, represented by Treasury

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for Washington | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

FOR AMERICANS: "It is a gross oversimplification to say that Britain's present difficulties are solely due to mistakes in British policy." FOR BRITONS : "For a generation past, the British people have been paying far too little attention to their competitive position in the world."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Both Sides of the Medal | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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