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Word: softest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics for women's wear. In short, some industries had already gone through their own private recession and were getting back to something like normal. Actually, a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Bottom? | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...chamber is also equipped with a voice recorder so sensitive that it can pick up even the softest and most confidential whisper, and betray it to the concealed investigators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bales Creates a New Social Relations Machine | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nutmeg Cops Waive Lairs, Nab Speeders by Air Waves | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...Louis that Harlem knew. Away from his own people, he was always conscientious about being a credit to his race. Harlem knew him as a man sometimes angry and sometimes moody-but also a fellow who could relax, laugh his head off, throw expensive parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money Ain't Everything | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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