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Word: churns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a giant's dream; next the camera traces the uncanny passage of a kind of desert rock that apparently walks by itself when nobody is looking. A little further on, the camera comes in close to watch two common tortoises, crowding the screen like prehistoric Panzers, churn into battle for possession of a female. Soon the audience is gliding along beside a rattler as he tracks a pocket mouse by tasting its footsteps with cold relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Membership in this club, perhaps the most exclusive in the University, is open only to single scullers enrolled in the University who can churn their way to Arsenal bridge and back to Weld, a four mile course, in 30 minutes...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Arsenal and Back in 30 Minutes | 5/22/1953 | See Source »

Later, the Charles will churn to the beat of two Spanish galleons, each bearing 23 oars, when the CRIMSON crew meets the 'Poon in a 2:30 p.m. race over a two-cable length course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Poonsters Seek Upset Victory; 'Match Magpie' Is Crimson's Chortle; Uplike in Uproar; 25 Cu Tu Coo Fawn | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

...sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Pilgrims Ordeal | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Rubinstein. Last week, in Roslyn, N.Y., she opened a new $4,000,000 plant to put her beauty business on an assembly-line basis and triple her production. Made mostly of glass, it has dustproof floors, a sealed, odorproof room for testing perfumes, huge, stainless-steel mixing vats to churn up tons of cream and cologne, and machines to fill 1,000,000 bottles and jars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Beauty's Handmaiden | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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