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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste, but now "within limits." Engineers and others who need privacy get 100 sq. ft., standard metal desks 60 in. by 30 in., two wooden chairs and a coat rack; everyone else gets 70 sq. ft. of work space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EXECUTIVE TRAPPINGS; Who Rates the Rugs & When | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...grimy looking walls to condemnation of the entire Center as inadequate. The furniture just inside the front door is a collection of multi-colored leather chairs placed about a large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find a place for his coat on an overburdened clothes rack. In the basement, a student is apt to kick his locker rather than struggle with the old lock that opens the way to a minimum of space. Old ping pong tables, a billiard room with no pool table, and dingy lighting are all less than satisfactory. Even the television set hasn...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

GAMBLING HOUSES in Nevada will rack up the biggest winnings in history for 1954, predicts the State Tax Commission, which gets a 2% tax on gross winnings. Gamblers' estimated take: $90 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...that one no longer continues to take the work of Bill Meigs, Orville Tice, John Maher, Tim Anderson, Bob Cochran, Bill Frate, et al, almost for granted. The quality of their work is statistically evident, for they opened holes often enough to allow a predominantly sopho- more backfield to rack up 20 first downs. And most of those were gained without the services of sophomore tailback Matt Botsford, who suffered an elbow injury in the last minute of the first quarter. It has not yet been announced whether the injury was a fracture, but in any case...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Varsity Scores Muddy 27-13 Win Over Ohio | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...latest experiment "creative" in his approach to the continuing search recording for business. Over the last 15 years, Lieberson has won a reputation for adventurous programming. Soon after his arrival, Columbia released such radical items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created a new source of fine music as a major underwriter of the first Casals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diskman's Dilemma | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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