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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good thing. Was there a lack of Canadian capital? Up to a point, there was, but the shortage was partly due to a shortage of Canadians (12.8 million v. 148.5 million U.S. population). Moreover, many a Canadian in the chips wanted to play it safe. He put his money in the more conservative wood pulp, paper and textile industries, left such speculative fields as oil to gambling Americans with specialized know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Venturing Capital | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aching Joints | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...teacher to the student himself. The ultimate intention is to restrict the range of ideas which the student may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may be melded to a "safe" and fairly rigid pattern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student and Academic Freedom | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Office workers found the detonating wires still lying on the floor, along with several Blackjack chewing gum wrappers. It was deduced that the gum was used to tamp the explosive into holes drilled in the safe door. The police found finger prints all over the place, but no one was over apprehended for the robbery...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

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