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Word: shrunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week (Sun. 5 p.m.. E.S.T.), draws viewers in a Nielsen-estimated 3,850,000 homes; his Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m.. E.S.T.), now in its fifth year, flickers weekly into more than 8,300,000 homes, and his ten-year-old radio broadcast, its audience shrunken by TV competition, still enables Murrow to get more than 1,000,000 Americans by the ears every weekday evening at 7:45, E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen. He got his shiny counters, but his hound's-tooth countermen were hard to come by. After a couple of trips to the laundry, their 35? white linen caps looked like old socks-shrunken, grey and frayed. Said Ingram: Why not paper caps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTION: Caps on the Side | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Atlantic in January, and urbanely commented on under sea matters through a diver's helmet 30 ft. below the surface of the Pacific. Collingwood once also gave his audience an authentic South American recipe, with step-by-step illustrations, on how to shrink a human head. An actual shrunken head was, of course, in camera range during the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Adventure | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...into the dawn wearing the cap of a Western Union boy. At the end of the McLean regime in 1933, the Washington Post was a paper celebrated in song (by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name) but $600,000 in debt for newsprint for its shrunken circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Darkest California. In Los Angeles, Patrick C. Kimball reported that thieves had broken into his garage, departed with 20 poison-tipped darts, two 8-ft. blow-guns and a white man's shrunken head valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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