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Word: tc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Atlantic is March 1 to July 1. The bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ice Southward | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake tc set to work . . . and make a better statue of St. Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra in upstate New York, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Week celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of Mormonism. According tc Mormon lore, on Cumorah, where now stands a large statue of the Angel Moroni, Founder Joseph Smith received from the angel the gold tablets on which the Book of Mormon was inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tithes and Security | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...year and a half before the 1929 stock crash, bonds broke. Last March, Business failed tc take the hint, however, when bonds that three months before had been at their highest level in history, broke violently. In one day $23,450,000 of Government bonds alone were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, a 16-year record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Long Grind | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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