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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dino Gentili, 55, is a rich exporter-importer who has one of the most grandiose homes in Milan, a gilded opera box at La Scala, a villa at Portofino, three racy sports cars, and eight companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double-Dealer | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Magic Box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...psychology lab a student volunteer washed down the magnet with water, then lay down on a bed, fully dressed and in no discomfort. Beneath the bed was a magnetometer detector (a small rectangular box). Wires from the detector led to the control room, where members of the research team watched the magnet's movements recorded by an automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magnet in the Stomach | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...pictures, including Marty, which won four Academy Awards, are expected to gross $42 million (on a $7,343,000 investment). The partners' deal with United Artists, which releases their films, gives them 70% to 85% of the profits. Since 1947 Hecht and Lancaster have produced eleven films-all box-office successes. They already have impressive plans for spending $40 million in the next three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Branch | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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