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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hopkins: Lawyer Shriver's wine cellar (404 gallons, including 235 bottles of Scotch, 165 of champagne, 15 of pure alcohol, and one of Howard County applejack). Because of the difficulty of figuring out what the tax should be, the whole lot was destroyed by the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. Flint at Work | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...that the varsity played football in the Stadium Saturday. What went on could hardly be described as a game, however. Coach Henry Lamar, the head linesman ex officio, merely plopped the ball down on the 40-yard line and pointed towards the opposite goal line. Then the "A" offensive unit went to work again the "A" defensive group...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Payments are to be retroactive to the beginning of the Korean war. To pay the bills, unit commanders in Korea, already swamped with the usual paper work, must take on more to keep up the list of eligibles. For the thousands of Korean veterans who have left the front-and in many cases the service, the Pentagon must check back into company records to see who is entitled to the money. This paper work alone, the Pentagon estimates, will cost $250,000,000-more than enough to buy a supercarrier or one thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Equalization | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...this year 8 by 10 inch, green-blue registration cards are included with all other registration paraphernalia. The card calls the Center "the eighth unit in the House system" and states that membership offers students "educational, social, and athletic facilities and opportunities similar to those provided in the seven resident Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Able To Join Dudley At Registration | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Other critics assail the unit cost of irrigation. They say it makes little sense to pay $750 to irrigate an acre when fertile dry land can be bought for $450 an acre. In parts of northeastern Montana, dry-land farmers, who have been getting along satisfactorily, refuse to join new irrigation districts, and so far Pick-Sloan has been able to bring only 12,300 of its planned 5,000,000 new acres into irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri Valley: LAND OF THE BIG MUDDY | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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