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Word: knifings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert preferred an older precedent: that of "Mr. Purcell, a septuagenarian of County Cork, who in 1811 was knighted for killing four burglars with a carving knife. That, I feel, is the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Cricket | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...when other businesses were going to pot, Keating streamlined his spatulas, basting spoons, kitchen strainers, etc. into atched sets with nine color combinations. Result: sales tripled. To boost his sales of knives, he put out sets of six or more in safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: King of the Kitchen | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...attain such mass production, Engineer Keating developed many special machines. From his $400,000 research laboratory have come such devices as a wire-former that automatically shapes strainer forms at a clip of 1,500 an hour, a woodworking machine that turns out knife handles in one operation instead of four, a sharpener for potato peeler blades that is so safe and automatic that its operators read the comics while feeding blades into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: King of the Kitchen | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Then comes the beheading, performed with ceremony. The implement used is a bamboo knife. Small children are spared and adopted, in the hope that they will tell the names of the unidentified dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Get a Name | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Slow Burn. In Colombes, France, Fernand Bria stabbed his friend Ramon Coll in the chest with a hunting knife, admitted to police that he had been brooding for some time over Coil's seduction of his wife 27 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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