Word: kits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman ever finds anything in her purse. Usually she doesn't. This isn't a point of pride among the fairer sex, but a lack of something better. Now something better is here, and BIGELOW KENNARD at 384 Boylston Street has it. It is a small kit that keeps lipstick, cologne, and other feminine vanities together and apart from the rest of sacred contents of her bag. The small handsome kit can be carried separately as well. Price...
...first prize for painting (a $100 defense bond and a painting kit) went to Private Paul Calle, 23, a onetime commercial artist from Manhattan, for his somber study of a little girl in a tenement doorway. Private Calle painted it "because I was confused when I first went into the service," and the painting, drawn from memories of a Lower East Side childhood, "expressed my feeling of confusion...
...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...
Utopia in Reverse. Chou and his comrades are serving the interests of the Chinese people in their own fashion. They are trying with every tool in their revolutionary kit to destroy China's traditional society, replace it with a new structure that is horrifyingly like the utopia-in-reverse of George Orwell's 1984. Chief among traditions under all-out Red attack is China's revered institution, the family. China's Reds by their own admission have bent all their efforts to turn father against son, mother against daughter. Wives are being handsomely rewarded for informing...
...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...