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Word: cake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Ward. Economically, Austria is a ward of the U.S. It lives well: the Viennese enjoy their castles of whipped cream and citadels of chocolate cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Jolly Chancellor | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon, a figure that means much more to the average motorist, the four-cylinder Henry J Corsair took the cake with 30.856; Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion was second with 27.822 miles per gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Economy Run | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...solemn speeches or long faces. His 96 musicians gave him a party at which the eleven women of the orchestra put on a vivacious cancan. Cracked Monteux, "It took me 17 years to see what pretty legs they have." With enormous gusto, he knifed into a huge cake lettered "Au revoir, cher Maître." And he set straight one matter that has intrigued San Franciscans for years: "I make you a declaration. My hair, it is not dyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: End of an Era | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance, and to some intensive selling of the products of Sponsor General Mills (Bisquick, Crustquick, Party cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For Richer or Poorer | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Princeton. N.J., Albert Einstein ignored his 73rd birthday. Said his secretary: "He doesn't care about his birthday at all. He won't even have a birthday cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Young Ideas | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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