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Word: piers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported, because endless recombinations occur in a modern sub's big crew of 80 or more men. "It takes quite a while for even a rather unpleasant person to inflict himself on everyone in the group." And a bad apple can always be set off on the next pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saner Under Water | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

What offended Pastor Duncan about the flower show was a life-sized tableau depicting Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. Every 45 minutes, the azalea-banked exhibit, fresh from a two-year run on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, lit up and went into a 15-minute "performance" controlled by an impressive set of electronic equipment behind the scenes. Three minutes and ten seconds after the deep, resonant voice on the sound track began the story of Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Garden | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Local fishermen guided Gargallo to a reef where they sometimes fished up relics for sale to tourists. One mile offshore, he found weed-grown ruins, chunks of cut marble, and "something that looks like a street or a pier stretching along the bottom for about 100 ft." The ruins are in water 30 ft. to 50 ft. deep, and they cover 20 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drowned Cities | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Dressed in mothballs, the 11,141-ton Navy hospital ship Consolation now rides quietly at a San Francisco pier. But next fall she is scheduled to cast off and establish an imaginative medical precedent: a tour of Southeast Asia as a floating U.S. hospital and medical school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Floating Hospital | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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