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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fidelity Music Show. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the show featured all conceivable kinds of music reproduction equipment, from the standards of Bogen, Scott and Electro-Voice to the Grundig, Grado and Glasser-Steers para-phernalia. Even radio stations such as WXHR maintained promotional booths featuring such novelties as FM car receivers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newest In Sound Draws Big Crowds To Fifth Northeastern Hi-Fi Show | 10/22/1958 | See Source »

...normal healthy exercise of walking. Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets a fair amount of walking because he is too impatient to wait for elevators, walks up two floors and down three in offices and labs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adding Life to Years | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Paradoxically, one of the great worries about credit, the little or no down payment required for purchases, actually turned out in many cases to be to the advantage of both consumer and creditor. A man who had bought a car with no money down and 36 months to pay had so little equity in the car that he was apt to say "Come and get it" if pressed too hard to pay. Result: many a creditor carried his jobless customers to save himself the trouble and cost of repossession-and usually got his money when the customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING ON THE CUFF: BUYING ON THE CUFF | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cry, Children, Cry | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Cambridge police apprehended the men shortly after the incident, since a passer-by had taken down the license number of their car. Two of the men are being detained in the Cambridge city jail, while the third, a student at the M.I.T. night school, was released on $1,700 bail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drunks Break Cafe Window | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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