Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear that our enemies spend much money and effort in their search for military information. How much they could save by simply subscribing to TIME . . . and reading your article, "The Making of the H-Bomb." Not very long ago, you showed a pictorial and written description of the atomic submarine [TIME, Feb. 15]. Is it right that you should indulge in such practices...
...Harvard assets. Shares of the Charles River Bridge and the Middlesex Canal were written off as "Doubtful and Desperate Debt" after a free bridge was built alongside the one and a railroad was set up along the other. Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor the Massachusetts Legislature would save the school from these losses...
Although one of the worst offenders against simplicity, Counsel Ray Jenkins shows the most consistent desire to save time. This zeal has led him to coin several interesting contractions that, thanks to the witnesses' equally devious minds, have so far caused no confusion. Jenkins likes to say "Did or not in happen that..." in lieu of the more unwieldy, if equally ungainly, "Did it or did it not happen that..." Extending the principle to derive other equally ugly shortcut, Jenkins frequently uses "Was or not it..." and "Will or not you say that...
...year to bring foreign trade back into balance by boosting duties on all imports 25%. When the trade deficit kept getting worse and capital showed signs of taking flight northward, officials decided that they could not wait for this summer's expected bumper cotton and coffee crops to save the situation. Last week the government abruptly announced a devaluation of the Mexican peso-from 8.65 to 12.50 to the dollar...
TRUCKERS have presented the Post Office with a plan they say will save $85 million a year by shifting all mail from railroads to trucks for distances up to 300 miles. They argue that trucks are faster, cheaper and more flexible. Postal authorities seemed unimpressed by the plan since most big post offices are geared to rail service, are not set up to handle heavy truck traffic...