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Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make their own airplanes. So far, the group has 600 members spread around the U.S. who have flown 500 of their creations. One man is working on a combination plane and car with a pusher propeller and folding wings; another hopes to sell a do-it-yourself small plane kit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...just finished a 60-page file on an economic story: "For some antic reason my pulse quickened." He asked for the assignment. Bureau Chief Jim Shepley agreed, and off rushed Bookman to buy the proper equipment (including long underwear, a sleeping bag, air mattress and first-aid kit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Play-As-You-Learn. A series of educational hobby kits for children was announced by "Industrial America, Inc." of Chicago. Each kit contains materials for assembling models or performing experiments, and was designed by a topflight institution or manufacturer in that field. R.C.A. designed an Electronics Kit, including parts for a two-tube radio and a working miniature transmitter. Other kits deal with geology, weather forecasting, optics. Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Since Mother is played by Mary Boland, Lullaby is considerably more farcical than Freudian. And since Mother-when not making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of impeccable low comedy. Each of her intrusions on her son and daughter-in-law (well played by Jack Warden and Kay Medford) makes a bright little blob of color for the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Placing the blame for lung cancer directly on smoking, the Elis have devised a "smoker's kit" which they hope will be a satisfactory substitute. The kit includes life-savers to take the place of smoke rings, matches to light friends cigarettes, and a nail file for people who want to smoke and also wish to spare their finger nails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Launch Drive Against Smoking | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

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