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Word: timbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same revealing piece of wood off and on for 20 years, sometimes broken in a desk, sometimes built into a locked drawer-though once, admittedly, it was widened and made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Human Bondage | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

While most of the current talk about capital gains concerns stock market profits, the provisions of the tax actually cover a variety of operations; e.g., proceeds from the sale of timber, profits from the sale of livestock used for breeding, draft or dairy purposes, gains from coal royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX: Should It Be Cut ? | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Timber! In Paris, retired Policeman Ernest Carrere, 52, suing for divorce, charged that his wife had exposed him to serious injury by sawing part way through his wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...sharp eye out for log rustlers, and was lonely and bored during the long winters. By the early 19405 the ancient European practice of tree farming and sustained-yield forest crops had infiltrated the U.S. consciousness. The colleges were turning out eager young foresters who were more interested in timber management than in sparing the old pine tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL RESOURCES: Woodman, Chop that Tree! | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Soviet industry is lagging. Pig-iron prouction for 1954 was less than the planned figure, and rolled steel is in short supply. Production is below quota in all other metals, in oil, coal and timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread & Iron | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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