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Word: untillable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, Ben does not expect to have Citation ready to roll until winter. Casually, Ben adds, "We'll need him for those big stakes in California." Ben could afford to be casual about that announcement, but to other horsemen with an eye on the $100000 Santa Anita Handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Nice to be Needed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

While the initial composition on film by the new method is faster than conventional typesetting, the slowness of the photoengraving process tends to cut down the time saved. But the Graphic Arts Foundation, subsidized by 139 newspaper, magazine and book publishers, hopes to speed up photoengraving by further research. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peace in Chicago | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

In the world of commodity markets, where millions of eggs are traded every day, few traders had time for onions. Not until 1942 was the onion even listed on Chicago's big, bustling Mercantile Exchange, and there was so little interest (a mere 600 carlots traded v. 19,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Onion Boom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

In short, Banker Istel found it perfectly logical that U.S. investors should buy bargains at home before looking across the seas. Not until the market rose to levels reflecting a truer value for stocks, and the chances for profits were thus lessened, could Americans be expected to start looking for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: No Takers | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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