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Word: rates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loving man, suggested that they all meet with him in Washington. Taking the amiable view that the disputants just did not understand one another, Ching said optimistically: "There is a good possibility that the argument springs not from irreconcilable, fundamental differences, but from the meaning of words. At any rate, it is my duty to ascertain whether this is the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The War of the Wires | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...quickest killing was made by those who had sold the pound short-speculators and merchants who have been buying in Britain. The merchants had done this to protect themselves, in case of devaluation, from losses on goods ordered at the old rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Windfall | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...trees, one of our former residents cut quite a niche for himself writing about trees. This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Rising at Mahwah | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...claims in a recent article in This Week magazine. The article was "full of the usual cliches such as 'learning as much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flapdoodle | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Easy Living (RKO Radio) looks for half a reel like a football yarn. Then it turns into a turgid, second-rate soap opera about a professional football hero (Victor Mature) and his overambitious career-girl wife (Lizabeth Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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