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Word: held (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ideas of convenience held by Lee Ho's men had disgraced the Korean government and disgusted its allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Convenience | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords noted that various British courts have held in the past that births after periods of 331, 346 and even 349 days were not impossible, but added: "It would appear a fantastic suggestion . . . that a normal child could be born 360 days after the last intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fantastic Suggestion | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their playing time to be even"). From then on, Sophomore Guard Frank Ramsey took over the Kentucky scoring (19 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready & Loaded | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...popular singers of 1949 held their own in 1950. Last week, with returns in from their annual jazz-fan polls, both Down Beat and Metronome found that rubber-throated Billy Eckstine and sultry-voiced Sarah Vaughan again led all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Winners | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Government could hardly have given a better example of how not to control prices. The price stabilizers had completely forgotten the lesson of World War II that prices of an end product cannot be effectively controlled unless prices of all the raw materials going into it are also held down. To be successful in his attempt to control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes 20% of the nation's steel, and huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stalled Autos | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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