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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capot, who has never been beaten at Pimlico, pounded down the home stretch a dozen lengths in front. His time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 4/5, less than a second off the track record he set in winning the Preakness last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse of the Year | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...this round-the-world ocean, Urey thinks, life evolved a billion and a half years ago. There is no record of these ancient creatures because they were all "pelagic," living at or near the surface of the water. They did not develop heavy, easily preserved shells or skeletons because there was no land or shallow bottom for non-floating forms to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Land from the Depths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...months, Reporter Guthman gathered additional evidence that Rader was telling the truth. He found an optician's record to prove that Rader had broken his glasses at the Washington resort, a University of Washington library card showing he had withdrawn books in Seattle during the time he had supposedly been 3,000 miles away, and a Seattle voting record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Republic and Inland's nets were off 23%, Jones & Laughlin's 44%, and ten other companies showed corresponding decreases. Nearly all the oil companies were down and many another industry showed a turndown when compared with 1948's third quarter, an alltime record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full of Steam | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer from Missouri | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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