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Word: sending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the committee would look into the commodity holdings of one of its own members: Oklahoma's Democrat Elmer Thomas. After his wife's name had bobbed up on a list of cotton traders, Senator Thomas said he would send his brokerage records to the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Muckraker's Progress | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

When the CRIMSON learned on December 2 that Lester Cramer was trying to revive the lucrative trade he enjoyed before the war, the editors decided to send a man around to investigate...

Author: By David G. Breaten, | Title: Pro Tutor 'Good Deal' for Student Willing to Spend Money, Not Time | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

...Stevenson-Douglas ointment was that each man would have preferred the other's spot. But if Boss Arvey had tried to send Economist Douglas to Springfield, every patronage-minded man in the ranks would have howled rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Gentleman & Scholar | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw, 91, enthusiastically endorsed a British organization called the Anti-Women Society (for "men's rights"), though he declined an invitation to join. "I am far too old," said he, improvising his nouns as he went along. "I can only send you this attaboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

This is what may happen, said Menzel & Salisbury, in the great "vacuum chamber" (space) outside the earth's atmosphere. They start with the assumption that disturbances (such as sunspots) on the sun's surface send out powerful radio waves about a million miles long which set up "transient fields" in space. These pick up wandering protons and give them a mighty, long-lasting push. When the protons hit the earth's atmosphere, they have enough energy to rate as cosmic rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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