Word: arounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit with handfuls of green, crumpled-up folding money. By noon he had $2,000. Charlie, a Packard Motor Car Co. dynamometer tester, ordered in two barrels of beer and plenty of whisky to go with it. As the money flowed in last week, everybody drank, yelled and danced around the front room...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick set off in his converted B-17 with his wife and a photographer for a fast look around South America...
...there is a theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...
Girls getting off their rush-hour buses in downtown Jacksonville one morning last week noticed that the sidewalks were covered with particles of soot, which swirled up around their ankles. Hundreds looked down and found their nylons suddenly streaked with runs...
...year and a half ago, Harvey had a hunch. Nine years after he had thought up his simple little tune in Omar's Dome, he took it around to Bandleader Woody Herman. Woody didn't like it, and says Harvey, "I'm glad. If Woody hadda played it with all his noise, everybody might have missed it." He took it around to Supreme Records, a small company that was looking for what Harvey calls some "catchy novelties." A sweet-singing minor songbird named Paula Watson recorded it. When the big record makers heard it, they could hardly...