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Word: modell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yeah. You know, model, make and serial number. You need 'em all, and the color...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Numbers Racket | 11/7/1958 | See Source »

...their first project, the Rocket Society plans to buy and launch a 30-inch scale model of the Navy's Aerobee-Hi research rocket. The missile rises to 1,000 feet at 200 miles per hour and returns to earth by parachute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Organize Rocket Society, Plan to Launch Aerobee-Hi Missile | 11/4/1958 | See Source »

American Air's "Merry Olds" comes in two models (roadster and wagon), is an almost exact duplicate of the 1901 model right down to its bicycle-type wheels, chain drive, steering tiller and three elegant brass lamps. It can reach speeds of 35 m.p.h. with its 4 h.p. air-cooled engine, gets more than 60 miles to the gallon. Cost: $1,495 f.o.b. Ft. Lauderdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Backward Look | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Studebaker-Packard's new small car, the Lark, also made pricing news. Its price was set lower than the list prices of the Big Three and in some cases below American Motors' hot-selling Rambler. The Lark begins at $1,756 for a two-door, six-cylinder model, ranges to $2,362 for an eight-cylinder station wagon. Its four-door six carries a list price of $1,821 v. $1,918 for the cheapest four-door Rambler, but most of its two-door models run slightly above Rambler's two-door Rambler American series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: More & Cheaper Cars | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...speakers are three schoolboys of present-day Paris who have "decided to model their lives on those of distinguished men." Bored by both their ordinary selves and their ordinary lives, they dream of rebellion, plots and seductions. Their big day comes when a worried spinster, who lives with an aristocratic family just outside Paris, tells "Valmont" about a plot worthy of Dumas: the haughty old head of the family has locked and bolted his pretty daughter Denise into her bedroom and will not let her out until she swears to break off an affair with a middleaged, married antique dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragicomic Musketeers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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