Word: corona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally, the year had a pleasant beginning. The Student Council discovered it had paid its debt, the University was permitting students to cut classes the day before and after vacations, and students could buy crimson and white Corona Portable typewriters with "H U" on them at the Coop. Kellogg's All-Bran was prescribed (by the Kellogg Company) as the way to end the "widespread evil" of constipation causing most of the ill health which harms effective studying. The little Psychological Clinic was forced by the needs of House Plan Unit No. 1 to move from 19 Beaver Street...
Portable Electric Typewriter. Smith-Corona put on sale the first production models of its new 18-lb. portable electric typewriter. Convenient for travelers, the portable is also aimed at bringing the uniform printing-press quality of costlier full-size electric models within reach of small business and professional men. Price...
UPTON SINCLAIR Corona, Calif...
...through high-powered telescopes, was illuminating, especially on color TV, and it proved-once more-that the wonders of nature are far more effective than man-made TV wizardry. Choice shots: the seething surface of the sun, sunspots in action, the aurora borealis, the sun, in eclipse, with its corona. Given a straighter, less condescending narrative and less self-conscious showmanship, Bell's slick new series can prove a bright shuttle between TV's need to entice and its assumed obligation to inform...
...radiant central sphere, 401n. in diameter, rotates with the gentlest breeze. Soaring outward from the free-moving core are finespun wire planes in the form of arcs (the sun's corona and prominences), so finely constructed that they quiver with the building's imperceptible vibration. Even more remarkable than the feat of putting it together is Sculptor Lippold's assurance that he can disassemble The Sun, pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo...