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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parker dug up, and Evjue delightedly splashed across his front page, the fact that McCarthy had been compelled to fork over some $3,500 in back income taxes on stock-market profits when the Treasury disallowed some of his deductions. Last week, it was Senator McCarthy's turn to rub both Evjue's and Parker's noses in some old muck of their own raking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mud for Muckrakers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Waltham, Mass. and announced that he was "terrified." He had expected about 30 people, but 600 had come. "I don't see why so many people would come to a poetry lecture unless they had to," said he. "I wouldn't." Last week, it was the turn of Poet W. H. Auden to be astonished at a poetry audience of hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University with a Mission | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...unit, a $200, bright-red version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mine-Detector Solves Maintenance Department's Pipe-Locating Puzzle | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Since 1908, Du Pont and Olin have each owned 49% of the Equitable Powder Manufacturing Co., which in turn controls three small subsidiaries which make blasting powder and dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wrapped in Cellophane | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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