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Word: lockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Switch. In Dallas, a thief stole $290 from work clothes in a locker room, changed into a pair of stolen trousers, left the loot in his discarded pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...enter a certain phone booth and wait. Frank showed the note to the police. At 7:08 p.m. a police agent was in the booth when the phone rang and a voice told him to go to another phone booth. There he found a typed note and a public locker key taped under the seat. In the locker at Portland's Union Station, he found a third note ordering him to hire a Yellow Cab (with no two-way radio) and drive on Highway 99E the 120 miles to Eugene, at 25 m.p.h. When a car behind flashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bomb Plot | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Survivors of the run are served beef stew and orange juice in the locker room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Students to Compete In Annual Boston Marathon Grind | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Perlman poked into every corner of the road trying to trim the "belly fat." For example, he walked into a shop in Cleveland unannounced one evening at 9:30 p.m., found "not a man working. They were all in the locker room, although they don't go off work until 11." He shut down the shop. With better use of diesels, he found that he could retire 381 less efficient steam locomotives, leaving only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Als Miracle | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...houses. If the commuter is given connection with a house, then the problem of letting him "rub elbows with undergraduates from all sections of the country" is presumably resolved. As Dean Bender said, "It is basically unsound to isolate a group on an economic or geographic basic."5The locker system in Dudley's basement is one of the small but numerous inconveniences that hagglers the commuter...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

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