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Word: unless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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These scientists may as well accept the fact that they are no longer in the saddle. We individuals who insist upon being individuals no longer support them, ho longer believe in them; and unless they behave themselves better in the future and stop lying to us, will no longer tolerate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Adam and Eve started [populating] about 4,000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates (31.3 v. 24.4 per 1,000 in the U.S.), Puerto Rico's people are increasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...thing is annual. And it happens the same way every year. So it is possible to present an eye-witness account of the bizarre events that will start to occur at precisely 7:15 a.m., unless, as was the case two years ago, the derby is postponed because of "inclement weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Really Gets Rolling Today | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...Album, Roy E. Coombs '47, 1E, co-business manager of the volume announced last night. Subscribers can pick up their books in Adams G-1 or Lowell L-24 any evening that week. Coombs warned that the Albums will be mailed to home addresses, however, unless men wishing to pick up their volume in Cambridge notify John E. Carlson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '47-48 Album To Come Out Late in May | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

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