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Word: cooker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remo has no head for study and no heart for work. What he doesn't know about women, however, can be written on the head of one of his aunts' pins. After stripping the sisters of their savings, land and farm, Remo marries a beautiful American pressure-cooker heiress and goes to live with her. in New York. The blow is broken for the loving aunts when Remo tells them that he is not in love but has married for money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Spinsters | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Go In & Sink | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...pressure-cooker ring, the heat (104°) took its toll. For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Misfire | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...years; the company spent some $3,000,000 on research perfecting it. It starts by immersing ground crude ore in chemicals and water to float out some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chemical Magic | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker sales, Keating reheated them with a cooker big enough to sterilize baby's bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: King of the Kitchen | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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