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Word: wolfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...hold a wolf by the ears. Nor do I know by what means I can get rid of him, nor how I am to keep him.-Terence

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Wolf by the Ears | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Most U.S. industries last week had a price wolf by the ears. For the cement industry, a way to get rid of him seemed relatively plain. Bowing to a Federal Trade Commission order recently upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, May 10), Universal Atlas Cement Co., largest cement maker in the U.S., last week grudgingly gave up its basing-point system of pricing. The company called the order "economically unsound and wrong," but it announced that it would sell henceforth at prices f.o.b. its plants; freight costs would be applied to the buyer's bill. Smaller cement companies promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Wolf by the Ears | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Plainclothesmen Frank Wolf and Stephen Chambers spent four months betting on the numbers and horses in order to nab gamblers, made 50 arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems to get better just when most boxers get worse-after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenger | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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