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Word: cake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mother always told me I couldn't eat my cake and have it too, but she didn't say I'd have to pay for my butter and not get it either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Bucky invented a series of Dymaxion bathrooms which were excellently designed, but demanded a great deal of their occupants. "Damn it," said an eminent architectural friend of Bucky's, "Bucky thinks people ought to get weighed while sitting on the toilet seat, brushing their teeth with a cake of soap and taking a shower from a fog-gun." An evil light came into the eminent architectural eye. "But I ainta gonta," he said. "I just ainta gonta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Each operation lasted two hours or more, and each time Rodney stood it well. This week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Covering the Brain | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...first act consists mainly of the technical figure skating which won him two Olympic crowns. In his second act he turns to the more showy side of fancy skating and entertains the highly pleased crowd with various intricate cake walk routines, mostly done on the toes of his $120 skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Button Has Two Solo Acts In Current Ice Capade Show | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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