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...first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor of celebrating Billy Graham's birthday: he had just turned...
...merger was originally proposed as a space-saver, since it would eliminate over 2,000,000 duplicate cards. Metcalf proposed to move the second-floor catalogue--which contains listings by author, subject, and title--into the first floor Union Catalogue--which has listings, by author only, of almost every book in the University...
White shoes are also a traditional spring-type form of attire. Those people who like to rationalize their wearing of the ivory bucks claim "They're a great time-saver because you don't have to clean them." This usually sounds convincing, but there has always been a school of somewhat indolent scholars who claim that you don't have to clean brown shoes either...
...Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...
...latest issue, the editors of the Lampoon have descended to a new low in their seventy-five years of unmitigated dullness. Even the Life-Saver joke, usually the high point of each issue, if lifeless, trite, and unfunny. The Shaefer ad is unreadable, while the Coop ad, which is generally the only reason for buying the magazine in the first place, is totally tasteless and unprovocative...