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Word: makeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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James J. ("Big Jim") Jeffries, 75, heavyweight champ who was knocked flat in 1910 by Jack Johnson, the first Negro champ, observed that the fight game has become so sissified that "I'd rather see a wrestling match . . . Lots of these kids fighting now would make damn good ping-pong players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...strike vote, chiefly because the staffers-and ex-staffers-felt that nothing would be gained by a strike that might destroy what was left of the paper. But to newsmen, the firings were one more packet of evidence from Millionaire Publisher Field that it takes more than money to make a successful newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Surgeon at Work | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...officers examined military personnel and laborers who had been working with DDT for as much as five years. In no case did they find an ailment traceable to DDT. To make doubly sure, they analyzed body fat from 16 men who had been exposed constantly to DDT. Though the insecticide tends to concentrate in fatty tissues, they found none of it in their samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safe DDT | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...executive vice president of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories (drugs), Businessman Francis Boyer has to deal with and hire scientists. Last week he told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society how he tries to decide whether a scientific researcher is apt to make real discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Esthetic Satisfaction | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...didn't do anything real bad," recalls Betty Hutton, as larger audiences have since come to know the freckle-face. "How is a woman supposed to make her living with two kids when her husband deserted her? Mom just ran a joint on a small scale. We'd operate until the cops got wise. Then they'd move in and close us down, and we'd move somewhere else. Marion and I would entertain the customers by dancing and singing. We really lived that way until we were 12 and 14 years old . . . Things were really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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