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Word: mask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Dictaphone that can be used by patients totally paralyzed except for speech muscles. The machine is operated by a face mask with switches that can be tripped by the tongue. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Medical Wrinkles | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Decent Godless People. The world wore a smiling mask in his childhood: "good parents, good food, a garden to play in." Born in Belfast in 1898, Lewis was reared in the Church of Ireland, but his parents' religion was sheer rote, the kind T. S. Eliot was to satirize in the line: "Here were a decent godless people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Convert | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Death tore the mask off a happy childhood and an easy faith, when his mother died of cancer. "To this day I do not know what they mean when they call dead bodies beautiful. The ugliest man alive is an angel of beauty compared with the loveliest of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Convert | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Navy-type peacoats and chauffeurs' caps, which were in the truck. Each also was given a pistol and a Halloween-type mask; each had gloves and wore either crepe-sole shoes or rubbers so their footsteps would be muffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Big Payoff | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...lightning flashed across the screen, and a lot of noise came out of the P.A. system. Some kind of lights played on the walls, and it was pretty noisy, and the audience figured they might as well grab their girls again. An explosion went off and something like a mask was flashed on the screen. Then the lights came...

Author: By Jonathan F. Brecher, | Title: Weird Show | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

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