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Word: sell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...policemen's lot would have been a happy one. As it was, many said that they had merely gone to visit the ailing Barbara, who has since died of heart trouble. Two said their car had broken down near by. Another swore that he had come to sell Barbara some fish. Barbara himself said that all the guests had been more or less unexpected -and he just happened to have about 200 pounds of steak on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Even the Unsavory | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Several other factors had cansed similar speculation. McLernon had indicated a willingness earlier this fall to sell the yard "the sooner, the better" and for the biggest possible profit...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Action by State Senate Dims University's Hopes Of Obtaining House Site | 12/8/1960 | See Source »

...belatedly joining her in hollering, since they lose the housewife's confidence-and future sales-and are forced to provide excessive service repairs. For example, New York's Korvette chain last year found that a nationally advertised TV set had a bad part. Korvette refused to sell it until the flaw was corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEED FOR QUALITY.: THE NEED FOR QUALITY | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

This year Park & Hagna will sell some 360,000 jars, worth about $157,000, in 32 states; next year it hopes to sell 6,000,000 jars, advertise its beans nationally, also come out with a relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Jumping Bean | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...mind that the book is too long by half or that its style sometimes flutters giddily. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach was born in 1876, and sniffed book dust from childhood; his uncle Moses Polock was an early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While working for his Ph.D.-later he sported his doctorate and his pince-nez to much the same effect-he set out to compile nothing less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folios & Frenzies | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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