Word: compartmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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1. The three sizes of compartment around the center make it necessary to plan out ahead all the items desired so that the right size can be tendered for each, and the proper foods placed adjacent one another to minimize the number of rotations during the eating process.
2. The compartments are too shallow. My salad was placed in one compartment and ended up in three. The potato spewed over into the central milk-glass division, and the gravy required a skilled juggling act to keep it from flowing over the side. Also there was insufficient height in...
Cooks' Lure. General Motors' Frigidaire Division brought out a new electric range with an oven that can cook different foods at different temperatures at the same time. The "Wonder Oven" has an upper and lower compartment, with individual heating units, separated by an insulated sliding door. For big...
John Ross kept the news under his tan Stetson and went to work. He discovered that right after the murder Kirkes had ordered his coupe repainted, though the garage man insisted it didn't need paint. That same week the big patrolman grabbed an air hose away from a...
They went back to the van. Before resuming the journey they made a routine inspection of the small compartment in which their prisoners were supposedly locked. In the floor they found a small, carefully sawed hole through which René the Stick (and his friend) had once more slipped to...