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Word: bridgework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tripe. In Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...year-old, self-proclaimed prophet in his headquarters building, blew him, themselves, and five other adults and two children to kingdom come. The killers were identified by fingerprints taken from severed hands found in the rubble; Krishna's death was certified upon examination of his less mortal dental bridgework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Prophet | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical cables, fuse boxes and cranes, or peer down in boredom from steel bridgework overhead. Half a hundred tourists stand in the outer shadows, looking as if their shoes pinched. Everybody talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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