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Word: penned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control center as well are the thousands of tubes and circuits that form the "time generator." This is the space age's electromechanical clockwork that provides the correct time to the thousandth of a second, so that when data is collected from all the film, tape, pen recorders, oscillographs and ballistic cameras up and down the 5,000-mile missile test range (see map), it can be correlated with absolute precision to give the story of just what happened when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE RITE OF SPACE | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Better Ballpoint. Paper Mate brought out a ballpoint pen which writes easily on grease-smeared paper or slick surfaces that usually balk ballpoints. The pen has a new ink containing a detergent that cleanses the writing surface. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...rebuffed by Schroeder, a kindergarten longhair who dotes only on Beethoven and practices interminably on a toy piano. Sighs she: "I'll probably never get married." Other Peanuts regulars: thumb-sucking Linus, who battles grimly for the security of a tattered blanket; a mud-caked urchin called Pig-Pen ("A human soil bank," sniffs Violet); and Snoopy, a pooch of many talents, few of which are appreciated by his peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Child's Garden of Reverses | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...before every show. And only before shows does Puttencove Promise get bathed; the dog just never gets dirty. In wet weather it is exercised on an outdoor run covered with clean, crushed rock; when the sun is out, it is allowed to romp on a carefully groomed lawn. Its pen has a radio to supply soothing music and a carpet of brown paper, not the usual shreds of newspaper, for newsprint might soil the poodle's coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pampered Poodle | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Cargo Manifest. In Louisville, after two youths snatched her black corduroy bag and police asked for a list of its contents, Millicent Stevens obliged: "A New Testament, one pen-ball pen, one blue-lead pencil, one double salt-and-pepper shaker, one small plastic box with green sample inside for upholstering, two Band-Aids, one Atom Bomb perfume, one string of safety pins, two bottles of partly evaporated milk, some books on health, a few religious tracts, three packs of APC tablets, and, above all, one tan dress coat, a $24 coat of my grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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