Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine has a detachable meter that can be set to stop printing at any point. The user takes the meter to the post office, buys the amount of postage he wants: the meter is set to stop after that amount is used, then is sealed...
...years later he packed off for Los Angeles, saved enough money jerking sodas to take flying lessons. He soloed in seven hours, became a partner in a flying school, coolly gambled with death by stunt flying for Hollywood movies. Soon Frye and two pals bought a single-engined Fokker, set up Standard Air Lines, one of the first in the nation, to lift Hollywood stars from Los Angeles to their desert hideaways...
...Office of Strategic Services, which conducted U.S. espionage activity behind enemy lines, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1953-54); in Washington. Shy, mild Bill Donovan had an antonymic nickname, quiet reserves of courage. Near the Marne in 1918, with a machine-gun bullet in his leg, Colonel Donovan refused evacuation, set an example that won him the Medal of Honor...
...Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter with the future...
...Ladder. Sam Clemens was the most erratic of autobiographers. Just about the only event of his life that he set down in conventional autobiographical manner was the beginning: "I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri . . . The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 per cent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town...