Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the same time. On the contrary, it is the fairy-tale quality of his world that has kept Holmes alive: he wields his magic wand in a never-never land where all cops are laughable simpletons, all locks susceptible to the key of logic...
...doorstep salesman is fast becoming the victim of a cruel technology. The unending onslaught of bigger and better devices for the Good Life has added to his wares such items as electric pencil sharpeners and hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice his size, and the New Devices spell a certain doom...
...that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing, riddles, word games, puns, fantastic figures and puzzles. He loved to stir...
...into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
Ever since Black Thursday of 1929, the figure 300 has had a magic meaning for Wall Street. On that October day the Dow-Jones industrial average, which had hit a peak of 386.10 in September, crashed 40 points and dropped below 300. In more than 24 years since 1929, it never reached 300 again. By mid-1930 the average bounced back 100 points to 297.25, but then started its almost uninterrupted fall to the 1932 low of 40.56. Last year the Dow-Jones average again inched up to 295.06, but got no higher. But last week on Friday (March...