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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned his coat? Some of his close relatives had been captured by the Communists last summer; he had recently received letters from them. Chinese believed that Wu had been "persuaded" by the letters to switch sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Since Jarring Jack Fisher departed from the Cambridge scene in 1946, Harvard has been having center trouble. Last year, for instance, Dick Harlow was forced to switch end Johnny Florentino to the pivot post when Chuck Glynn and Don Stone went on the injured list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Centers Battle For Varsity Starting Berth | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...Curtice was sent "around the corner" in Flint to Buick. The depression had hit the whole industry, but Buick, which had nothing to meet the switch of buyers to lower-priced lines, almost fell apart. In that year it made only 40,621 cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Shake | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...right, but his researcher was 96500 at the switch. In later copies, Petelka's number for "simple" was correctly given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elusive Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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