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Word: readers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Battle's typical coat is divided roughly three ways: tariff charges are about $18.50, U.S. traders (who bear the costs of handling & merchandising) get $31.50. The remaining $50 goes to the English manufacturer, who can then pay his bills for imported wool...

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

...week's end, 32-year-old Paul Coates had gained five pounds. He had sampled Scotch haggis (oatmeal and suet pudding), frankfurters & sauerkraut, spareribs, and potato latkes (pancakes), still had some 250 meals to go. A thoughtful reader had sent him a tin of baking soda, but Coates was no quitter. Gritted he: "I'll follow through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Came to Dinner | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...reader may feel that Erik's decision comes too late to win him a halo. On every occasion except the last, he invariably chucks science for dollars when the chips are down; in a sense, he has even deserted in the face of the enemy. The deeper objection is not that Erik is such an unstable compound, but that living with lightning makes such a dull life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Physicists | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...With all due credit to Screenwriter Ardrey, TIME considers Reader Sire's premise more interesting than realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...dialogue that makes his characters' conversation as credible as if it were overheard, whether they are talking in a brothel or planning a dinner at home. His gallery is extensive (housewives, doctors, politicians, businessmen, lovers, prostitutes) and the people seem as true and alive as if the reader had just met them. But Novelist O'Hara seems satisfied with only a casual-meeting knowledge of his people. Reading A Rage to Live is almost like exchanging slightly malicious gossip about one's home town over a drink in a bar. Everyone is discussed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pennsylvania Story | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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