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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asylum last week he was well enough to talk about getting back to his painting. He still had much to learn so that he could tell the world about his homeland. "I am an African," said Sekoto, "I would be stupid to want to become a European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Touring Africans | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Whipped, bedraggled Willy Loman is well on his way, it appears, to becoming as much a British as an American celebrity. Theatergoing Londoners last week welcomed Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prizewining Death of a Salesman with raves and flourishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Slam | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...public utilities, once so ailing, were doing almost as well as steel and autos, thanks to a bracing tonic of rate increases. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph, A.T. & T. controlled, boosted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: What's Up? | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Risking $15 of his scanty capital on an ad in a theatrical magazine, he was happily surprised to get quite a few orders from it. It seemed that housewives as well as actresses would buy his comfortable sandals. The first year he grossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: For Comfort & Profit | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile American Woolen and other weavers had a new kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeeze | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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