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Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high as 7,400 ft. on log roads. Even more important, MK's idea for joint ventures was a solution to the dam builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might wipe them out. But in joint ventures, with many companies sharing costs and profits (or losses), construction men could aim at the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Earth Mover | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Bolshevism as such cannot be changed by democratic means," he said. "It is inhuman the way it is set up, always seeking to wipe out its foes...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Soviet Revolutionary Leader Says Russia Leading in Propaganda Race | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

...sitting alone on the government front bench. His blue suit crumples. The thinning blond hair is no longer so carefully brushed across the balding scalp, and every now & then he coughs chestily. He fidgets. His left hand rubs slowly over his cheeks, reaches for a handkerchief to wipe his plumpish fate. Or his right forefinger goes round and upward to scratch the top of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Tory | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...more than $90 million a year in petroleum revenue, heard intriguing news last week. In his annual budget message, Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning said it was entirely possible that within the foreseeable future Alberta's oil and gas income would double. That would be enough to wipe out all present municipal, school and hospital taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Citizens' Dividends | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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