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Word: steeped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The Indians (who comprise two-thirds of all Bolivians) were not even aware that political storms threatened the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Same Scissors | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...local morning papers, Hearst's Examiner and the Los Angeles Times, the invasion posed no grave threat. But readers who were prepared to pay the steep prices (25? a day, 50? Sundays, $8.50 a month) could now get "All the News That's Fit to Print" on the day when it was news. Next move planned by the Times, which flies 12,000 copies a day to 28 Eastern and Midwestern U.S. cities: air delivery all along the West Coast, and possibly home delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transcontinental Times | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...steep hill outside Rouen, 80 miles from the finish, Robic pumped his way ahead. A few hours later, he zoomed victoriously across the finish line in Paris' Pare des Princes, raising both hands over his head in a risky gesture to the glory of France. Then he rushed into the arms of his pretty brunette wife, whom he had married three days before the race began. His time: 148 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds. His prize: 500,000 francs ($4,197.50) and a probable three or four million francs more in future exhibitions and endorsements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby on Wheels | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...rent-control bill was scarcely law before landlords pounced. Many a hotel promptly changed its permanent guests to steep transient rates. In Atlanta, one hotel slipped notices under the door at midnight June 30, ordering long-term tenants to vacate by midnight July 1 unless they paid by the day. Typical rate: a single room was upped from $82.50 a month to $7.50 a day ($225 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Going Up | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Damping wide-spread rumors that a steep rent increase was on the way, Edward L. Francis '28, yesterday assured tenants of the Harvard Housing Trust--including Holden Green, Shaylor Lane, and Gibson Terrace--that no general raise was presently under consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Trust Tenants Will Get No Rent Boost Unless Costs Go Up, Says Francis | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

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