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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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One Pinkerton detective and two Princeton proctors searched through the headquarters of College organizations last night for a Tiger suit, missing from the props of Nassau's cheerleading squad. The fur suit, famed for its expert Charlestoning, disappeared from a student's room, where its three guardians had left it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seen a Tiger? | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

Ezra Benson hesitated to give the order. Pork's troubles go too deep to be cured easily by price props. U.S. consumers are losing their taste for pork because 1) they are cutting down on fatty foods, and 2) they followed the advice of the Agriculture Department to eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Pork Price Drops | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Rallies & Retreats. Only then did the market leaders start moving. Thanks to the specialists, most of the leading stocks had props to keep them from tumbling too far. Even so, the drops were bad. Raytheon Manufacturing Co. soon went on the board with 16,000 shares sold, down 3 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Black Monday | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

With a lot of noise and a little action, last week the curtain lifted-slightly-on the great political drama of 1956, the campaign for the presidency. The props were not set up, and some of the main characters were still behind the scenes, but the U.S. nevertheless got a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Significant Glimpse | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

With the occasional aid of stage props (including a horse and pet monkey), Chandler lampooned his opponents without mercy and with considerable corn. His chief targets: Governor Lawrence Wetherby ("Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Music All the Day | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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