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Word: plushest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts Friday night with a good meal (the only one of the weekend) at the Hanover Inn. Nobody goes broke since the prices here at the plushest restaurant in town are no higher than at Cronin's. After dinner, Outdoor Evening's skating is climaxed with the crowning of a Carnival queen before a mildly enthusiastic crowd...

Author: By Judith Blitman and Joanna Burnstine, S | Title: Winter Carnival: Reflections of a Mad Age | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...cold remains of a meager meal, a collection of half-filled rum and Coca-Cola bottles. Amid it all sat a tall, heavy-shouldered man whose massive head, topped by long, reddish-brown hair, gave him the appearance of an aging lion. Contented as a man in the plushest executive suite, American Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 65, probably the world's richest private citizen, went calmly about his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Do-lt-Yourself Tycoon | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising dry cleaner this week emphasized his established business character by advertising: "Founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Flow at Blind River | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world's biggest hotelman, was ready to open his newest and plushest hotel: the $17 million, 450-room Beverly Hilton. Beamed Hilton: "This will be the biggest hotel opening in the history of the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Connie's Baby | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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