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Word: fixedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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"Every day for the past two weeks it has been the same," said a checkout girl in a Detroit A & J supermarket. "I just get the prices fixed in my mind when the manager comes up with another half-dozen raises. Eggs are down two cents today-that I can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Shave & a Haircut--$2.35 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: No Cease-Fire | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Malory, Mallore, Mallery. For four centuries, Sir Thomas, author of Morte Darthur and thus literature's main source for the King Arthur legends, had been nothing but a name in Caxton's 1485 edition. Then, in the late 19th Century, Harvard's famed George Lyman Kittredge began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost & Found | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Fixed Bridge

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

Station Two was an eye test; Station Three checked hearts and blood pressures. We were through them in five minutes, laughing a little now at each other with our baggy shorts and cloth bags. Station Four screened a dentist's chair and a strong light. Its doctor was wielding another...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

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