Word: savers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Craven made 16 saver and covered many more near-misses in smothering the powder-keg left side of the Penn line...