Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought I had seen everything till I saw my copy of TIME, July 11. A cover and a large section of the Business section devoted to Beer! I am shocked, offended and ashamed...
...Gold & Platinum Co., which had a cash kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits on 1955's first six months' gross are almost as high as for all of 1954. Another Pennroad venture, this time with South American Gold: buying the $31 million National Department...
Ghost on My Shoulder. Pilot Bridgeman tells his story with pride but not conceit. He tells of the things he had to learn till they became second nature, e.g., reverse breathing at high altitude, when a tank forces oxygen into his lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side...
Most Protestants, uncommitted to Mary's perpetual virginity, see no reason not to accept Jesus' brothers as real brothers. They point to the Douay version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...
Lewis informed the three Sitwells, "I'm thirty-seven till I pass the word round...