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Word: bags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bag. In Memphis, the humane officers reported catching for the month of April: 1,934 dogs, 301 cats, seven rats, four foxes, three chickens, two possums, two rabbits, one horse, one duck, one steer, one lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Dirksen. I am referring to the old bag of political bones, these old canards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...tied an asafetida bag around my bitch's neck, would it keep male dogs away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bark with Bite | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Lorraine Alverson's death came hard on the heels of warnings from the A.M.A. and the health commissioners of major cities that the filmy bags used to cover newly dry-cleaned garments should be kept away from children. So far, across the U.S. more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death by Plastic | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week Nancy Alverson, 31, left her 2½-year-old daughter Lorraine in their Greenwich Village apartment while she went shopping. Back in "a few minutes," she found the child dead, apparently of suffocation, with her head swathed in the adhering layers of a plastic garment bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death by Plastic | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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