Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Arline Judge, 45, much-mated cinemactress; and Edward Cooper Heard, 40, inventor-businessman; she for the seventh time (among the others: Director Wesley Ruggles, tin-plate millionaire brothers Dan and Bob Topping), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Overbite. In Atlanta, identified as the burglar who robbed the Fordham Pharmacy through the dental plate he dropped on the way out, Walter F. Cooper, 44, remarked disgustedly: "The thing never fit anyway; it was made for me while I was in prison in Missouri...
...business, especially for viewing the planets. The limiting factor in taking pictures of Mars, for instance, is not the efficiency or magnifying power of the telescope. It is the wobbling of the image because of irregularities that are almost always present in the earth's atmosphere. If the plate is exposed for more than a small fraction of a second. the dancing image blurs the picture with movement...
...like waves of thought. As in the Grand Lunar's palace, a blaze of light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy pink. Air conditioning filtered out the dust, kept the temperature at an even 75°. Along one end of the chamber was a gleaming plate-glass observation window, through which mere humans-attendants and sightseers -could watch and marvel...
Following my own advice, I heaped my plate with at least a dozen concoctions. One was a colorful combination of cranberries and bananas, another was reminiscent of hash. The waiter informed me that it was, "Peppers, apples, meat, pickles, fish, carrots, potatoes, and perhaps more." It was probably the "perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish...