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Word: shell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number one, Nick Daniloff. Between the bow and stern are Vic Harwood, at port seven and Peter Viles at six. Fifth seat is held down by Tom Williams, with Ridge Green at number four and Bailey Silbert at port three. Troy Brown in two position rounds out the shell...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

When it was all over and the last of 30,000 egg rollers had departed in an April drizzle, the gardeners began a cleanup job that may take two weeks. Surveying the mess, Chief Gardener Robert Redmond was philosophic. After all, he said, "egg shell has a certain amount of lime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Mob Scene | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...protest and least effective play. In it Williams is in flight, more than ever before, from theatrical realism. At the same time, he is appalled as never before by reality itself. Using the gaudiest of theater tricks-florid language, Hellzapoppin explosions, surrealist juxtapositions-he has shattered the familiar outer shell of life to reveal decadence and rottenness within. But in doing so, he has partly succumbed as a writer to what as a moralist he would expose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch of a single atomic artillery shell. (Its energy equivalent: 15,000 tons of TNT as compared to 20,000 tons at Nagasaki.) In an actual attack, if an A-bomb exploded higher than 300 feet above ground, its radiation would penetrate cellar shelters with more ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Elm & Main | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Standard Oil of New Jersey estimated that it would net $10 million less (about $518 million) than in 1951. Shell, with gross sales of $1,142,632,000, joined the select Billion Dollar Club for the first time, but its earnings fell 6% (to $90.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Good Cheer & Bad | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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