Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimistic about the chances of business success in store for a bra factory out there [TIME, Aug. 23]. In the first place, the Exquisite Form Brassiere Co. will have to provide many unusual and asymmetrical patterns for the unfortunate natives who "have been deformed by mu-mu* Furthermore, unless styles and mores have changed greatly there since 1943, the demand for the output of the brassiere company will be limited indeed, and tourists are few in numbers...
...last week, she was off the Bahamas, churning like a top and headed northwest. For five days she minced slowly northward in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast, while along the shore hurricane flags went up, storm shutters slammed down, and everybody waited breathlessly. HURRICANE TO HIT HEAD-ON UNLESS...
There was a time when no monarch worthy of his ermine considered a throne worth sitting on unless its perquisites included a private yacht. But no more. Frederika of Greece, whose royal veins course with the blood of a host of Europe's kingly houses, has a throne but no yacht. Most of her royal cousins have neither. Then Frederika got an idea: she and her husband, King Paul, would play hosts to their less fortunate relatives aboard Greece's brand-new 5,500-ton liner Agamemnon. Gratefully, the members of Europe's royal families swept aboard...
...classroom Matheson usually throws in a supply of good, sound horse sense: never bet on anything unless the odds are at least 5 to 2; stay away from the Daily Double ("the Daily Double is loaded with pigs"); wait until the second half of the afternoon's card, when the races include tested and proven animals; keep away from two-year-olds ("no one knows what they can do"). The battle may not always be to the strong, or the race to the swift-but that's the way to bet. "Be satisfied if you find as many...
...capital, much of it raised from Cuban investors, and a Cuban government loan of $150,000 for drilling. Under the terms of last month's decree designed to stimulate development of the island's oil resources, the loan need not be repaid unless the prospectors strike oil. With close to a million acres under lease in the central Jatibonico Basin, where a wildcat syndicate last May opened up the country's first sizable oilfield, Cuban-Colombian agreed last week to drill six 4,000-ft. wells when geological surveys are completed...