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Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Keedoozle Kerplunk | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...third day of my stay in Cambridge I found the answer. At my first lecture I found my seat and tried to make myself comfortable. It was at this moment that the Harvard hat problem hit me kerplunk in the face...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Labor Fellow Eyes Hatless Harvard, Blames Lack of Racks for Bare Pates | 12/11/1942 | See Source »

...sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only 30 such collisions occurred in all the 1,000,000 trails recorded by Professor Harkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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