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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Horrors of the Black Museum | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Horrors of the Black Museum | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...sick of some of this bilge that even Dr. Conant indulges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Even so, Detroit thought the small car was just a fad. TIME was not so sure. In a cover story on Ford Styling Chief George Walker (Nov. 4, 1957), TIME underscored the rising chorus of complaints that "Detroit's new chariots are too long, too heavy, too brassy." What TIME was reporting did not agree with many of the automakers' market surveys. But when auto sales skidded down sharply, TIME again updated the subject in a cover story on the Big Three (May 12, 1958), buttonholed motorists around the land. TIME found that they really thought U.S. cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Soon even some of the biggest wheels in Detroit began to doubt that U.S. consumers wanted their cars so big and bright. In the forefront of public doubters was American Motors' President George Romney (TIME, April 6, 1959). Privately, there was also Ed Cole, who had been working on a compact car for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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