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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hertz feels that the application of isotope research to the cancer problem will be along "tracer" lines, since it has been demonstrated that the majority of cancerous thyroids do not take up the radioactive iodine in the manner in which do the glands of patients suffering from Gravea' disease...

Author: By Donald G. Vincent, | Title: Hertz to Use Nuclear Fission in Cure for Cancer | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Fighter Foster got his second big chance; 14,193 fans turned out to see him take on blond Charlie Fusari at the Garden. The fight crowd was not yet wise to Vince Foster; he was a 5-6 favorite. At the bell, he bounced out of his corner, landed a couple of hard body punches. Then Fusari saw an opening. He threw a solid right to the chin. Vince Foster went down with a crash and took a count of two. He got up, ran into more long, looping rights, was knocked down twice more. The referee stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Back to the Hills. It did not take Sancton long to get fed up with "the rush, the noise and the grime" of city life. After a wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not So Wild a Dream | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...happy," he says, "if I can contribute just a little that will take some more of the gamble out of farming. Subsidies and price supports will never do that. The only thing they contribute is progress toward socialized farming-and that's the worst thing that could happen to this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Planting Time | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...track meet will end the Straus Trophy race, which Kirkland is almost sure of winning. Lowell, the only other possible winner, must finish six places ahead of Kirkland in track to take the trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Nine Bows to Yale | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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