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Word: gals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't control them," says Shirley. "I walked like a duck, so Mother sent me to ballet school to strengthen them. I loved the freedom of expression in movement. From the time I was three, I kept telling Mother, 'I want to be a little dancing gal.' " When Shirley was eleven, her parents moved from Richmond, where she was born, to Arlington. A good teacher in Washington, Julia Mildred Harper, became the reason "I don't have muscles in my legs like most dancers. If you do a little jump, your automatic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Motor Scooter. Harley-Davidson Motor Co. will introduce its first Topper motor scooter with a two-cycle engine that delivers 7 h.p. Scooter has a top speed of 50 m.p.h., features a fully automatic transmission and 1.7-gal.-capacity fuel tank that holds enough gas for 150 miles. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Modes | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

...West Germany's Wesphalia "camping bus," which looks like Volkswagen's utility bus, has beds for two in the back. Price: $2,195. A second German car: the NSU Sport Prinz with seats for four, a two-cylinder engine that gets 55 miles per gal., and a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...buyer seeking the ultimate in economy, Britain's York Noble Industries Ltd. had a new, fiber-glass-bodied Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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