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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled: "Now with . . . America's Grace Kelly leading the flat-chested brigade, leaving behind . . . all the other sweater girls, I hope it won't be long before Italy's overgrown divas will be the last contestants in the international Miss Community Chest contests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...something so complex, Playwright Chayefsky lacks both the capacity and the concentration; his play trades in banalities more pretentious than any it chronicles. It lists characters in the program as The Girl, The Kid Sister, The Manufacturer; it does not list scene changes but flashes them on a movie screen; it inserts needless incidental music. And there is the sudden happy ending-ascribable, perhaps, to reckless optimism on the lovers' part, but more easily to commercial pessimism on the author's about harsher endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Watson the visiting goalie is unmercifully exposed: by the very nature of his position, he stands alone waiting for action, while a swarm of hecklers can gather behind the screen a few feet away. In a sad way, the Harvard brand of goalie-baiting has been wonderfully successful. Dartmouth's Ted Bagnall received only mild heckling here, but except for one or two games he has been on the bench ever since...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: New Rink Breeds Hecklers | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

...varsity went ahead for the first time early in the second period when goalie Marr kicked at Denny Little's shot and it went under his skate. But at 17:19, with Dan Ullyot in the penalty box, the Eph's Dick Gallun's screen shot tied the score again...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Defeats Williams, 10-3 With Seven Tallies in Final Period | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

...places, helping the train hit speeds of 95 m.p.h. on curves on which older trains must hold to 70. The train has hit 110 m.p.h. on test runs. Passengers get a somewhat more jiggly ride than in heavier trains, but there are compensations: air conditioning, a television screen in the lounge that gives passengers an engineer's-eye view of the road ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Train | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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