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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooks' Lure. General Motors' Frigidaire Division brought out a new electric range with an oven that can cook different foods at different temperatures at the same time. The "Wonder Oven" has an upper and lower compartment, with individual heating units, separated by an insulated sliding door. For big roasters, the ovens can be merged into one. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...half-dozen girls who lived within a block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known as the "Henhouse Hicks." The Hicks furnished their clubhouse with castout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Real Romance | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...plants may lure many maids from the University next year, Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of the University Employee's Union, predicted yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maids May Take War Plant Work | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

While she is there, the Devil, a traditional puppet character now togged out as an American spy, enters and attempts to lure Stalin away from his peacemaking. The Devil is promptly killed. Shortly thereafter, Death himself arrives to inform Stalin that his time is up. "Oh no," pleads Stalin, "I am so busy, I have to work for peace!" Impressed, Death exits gracefully and leaves Stalin master of the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pity the Puppets | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...loan winters have made this year a must for the thousands of people who live on the wintertime ski trade and they're making an all-out effort to combat the weather device with added lure for the would-be adventurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements Beckon Skiers to Distant Hills | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

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