Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera is following the progress of a paramecium as it scoots through the heavy microscopic traffic. A few frames later the moviegoer may find himself staring at a luminous line of what seem to be huge purple carboys filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life...
...they are marked by their route number and taken over to the appropriate bench where the mail is further sorted into street divisions, with special sections for magazines, newspapers, and other mail too bulky to be put in with the letters. Most post offices do not have this special rack for breaking down the magazine mail down into street divisions, and indeed the Mount Auburn Street office is "very proud of this distinctive feature," according to Superintendent B. David DeLoury...
...includes a scrimmage. Scrubs and regulars, the boys smash into each other as if they were playing the big game of the season. "We're just dying to have some of you show us you're football players," Duffy tells them. "All you have to do is rack somebody up a few times and you'll play plenty...
...catch the impulse buyers, many makers have started setting these eyecatching albums on racks in supermarkets and variety stores, hoping that the housewife who hears a song over the air just before she goes out to shop will pick it up along with the groceries. An average record rack in a supermart grosses about $50 to $75 a week...
...Oedipus Rack. In Singapore. Them Kim Kow said in court that she had left her husband, but would return if her mother-in-law would stop sleeping under their...