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Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost many a parent half a dollar. The program proposes to teach "creative drawing and self-expression" to moppets. It shows simplified sketches of steamboats, locomotives, etc. on the screen while the young artists-or at least those who have sent in for the 50? Winky Dink Magic TV Kit-make copies and add their own embellishments. The Magic Kit contains a transparent plastic window that sticks to the TV screen, a set of special crayons and a flannel erasing cloth. Parents are assured that "the Magic Window . . . will in no way harm your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...manufacture the kit from which the model plane-a Ring Master-was made . . . We'd like to send that boy in Fayetteville a defense bond with our compliments . . . We will duplicate the defense bond to any other boy who bests that record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Like most patter merchants, Danish-born Victor Borge sometimes indulges in very corny gags and in rather too-cute remarks. There are even moments when he does nothing more than play the piano agreeably. But with his full kit of comedy tools, he not only blends words and music, but mixes satire with nonsense, the irrelevant with the irreverent. And if what he does begins to pall a little, there is still a genuine fascination in how he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shows in Manhattan, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...order to make time, you may inadvertently have a few small screws left over after repairing a television set. Solution: either put them in your pocket when the customer is not looking or mingle them with other items of the same type you might have in your tool kit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Honor Bright | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Trailer Kit. Chris-Craft Corp., which sells kits for building boats, announced a new build-it-yourself kit for constructing a house trailer. The trailer has aluminum outer walls, wooden frame, floor and paneling, is 14 ft. long and can sleep three. Price: $549, without tires and furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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