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Word: wipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear talk today about the sufferings of nations that were conquered in the last war. They do not compare with the sufferings borne by and outrages practiced among the people of the South following Appomattox . . . Let us not destroy the forum in which Calhoun thundered. Let us not wipe out this particular place where Daniel Webster became known to history as one of the greatest orators and statesman of all time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...that their mail contracts had failed to take account of the full rise in costs. Last week CAB unwrapped a big and shiny award. It granted $7,800,000 in retroactive mail pay to seven lines: American, United, T.W.A., Northeast, Northwest, National and Challenger. (This was almost enough to wipe out the whole industry's loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Blue Skies | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Ever since Textron Inc. decided to close its Nashua, N.H. plants and wipe out 3,500 jobs (TIME, Sept. 27), New Hampshire's excitable Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey had been gunning for Textron's President Royal Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Fantastic Picture | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Early this week Sun Fo finally succeeded in forming a cabinet. It contained some known to favor appeasing the Communists, but it also contained thoroughly anti-Communist Chen Li-fu. Observers recalled, however, that Chen has long opposed the Gimo's campaign to wipe out Communism in North China. Chen wanted to organize a strong anti-Communist free China south of the Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: So Cold | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Miracle of Dogpatch | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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