Word: mini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuse, No Fuss. A circuit breaker that replaces electric fuses in homes and can't burn out was put on sale by Mechanical Products, Inc. of Jackson, Mich. Called Mini-Breaker, it cuts off current whenever there is an overload or short circuit, needs only a push of a button to restore service. Price: $1.50, or four...
...party has always existed in a thick conspiratorial atmosphere, but since 1948 it has become heavily defensive. Keeping of member ship records has been forbidden, and in the last four years no party cards have been issued. Party records have been destroyed or hidden, public meetings held to a mini mum; use of the telephone and the mails is sharply restricted...
...School of Public Health. The student was Dr. Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis, 34, of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and few scholars ever had better excuse for being tardy. Dr. Davis had sailed 11,000 miles from New Zealand to the Charles River in his 48-foot ketch Mini, and had been beset by storms...
Last week energetic Dr. Douglas Quick, consulting radiologist and cancer specialist at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, had a triumph to announce for his hospital. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controls most of the world's limited supply of radium, had promised the hospital a five-year loan of the biggest chunk of radium (50 grams-about 1/10 lb.)* ever amassed. Estimated value...
...comic strip for over 30 years. They first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Chinless, blowhard Andy Gump, his long-suffering, last-wording wife Min, and their billionaire Uncle Bim became as familiar to millions of newspaper readers as the neighbors, and Andy's anguished cry for help ("O, Mini") was a byword of the '30s. When a minor character called Mary Gold was heartlessly killed off (the first U.S. comic-strip figure to die), thousands of readers protested...