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Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brokers watching a ticker tape in a collapsing market. Such items as Haspel summer suits opened at $32.50, started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from $1.39 to 45?; 5-h.p. outboard motors from $203.95 to $157.00; Palm Beach suits from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Welcome War | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...compulsory chapel, but some dormitory members join in a hymn of thanks before the evening meal. There are few formal house meetings, but girls in many of the dormitories take advantage of pre-dinner gatherings to arise and inquire as to the whereabouts of a strayed black Schaeffer fountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...concerns a G.I. in Japan (Dan Dailey) and his legally separated wife (Betty Grable.) The wife is with a female entertainment outfit called the WOOF's or WAP's or something equally non-existant. After a great deal of childness, the movie ends in a clinch while a gushing fountain gushes and revolving stages revolve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

...other cow in U.S. history, Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a moon-eyed Holstein belonging to the Carnation Co., was crowned "Queen of All Cows." At Daisy's coronation, Carnation Director G. S. Bulkley pronounced the eulogy: "To the dairy cow: protector of our natural health and wealth, fountain of youth of this modern day. To the dairy cow: our slave, our friend, our foster mother. Thank God for the dairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: It Takes All Kinds... | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...warring classes - indeed, there is internal evidence that she meant it to be a kiss of world peace-no reader of good will can object. Even the sourbellies will have to admit that such an author is a fact of U.S. life as primary and unalterable as the soda-fountain whipped-cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fact of Life | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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