Word: spec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor...
...Spec./ 3c STEVE GRAFOS U.S. Army Heilbronn, Germany...
...volume in 1954 than in any year during Germany's pre-World War I heyday of Latin American trading. Items: Spec was scuttled in 1939-West Germany has made itself Argentina's No. 1 supplier...
...Second Spec. At week's end, NBC gamely presented its second spectacular, a TV version of the 1941 Moss Hart musical, Lady in the Dark, starring Ann Sothern. Just like the first spectacular, it was big, beautiful and contained too many production numbers. There was such a quantity of large-scale scenes that the camera could take only a few closeups during the 1½-hour show and many viewers may have felt that they were watching the entire production through the wrong end of a telescope...
...Hygiene building itself is hardly a place for an adequate medical center. It was set up in the shell of the old Spec Club that burned down in 1930. The inside is like a spider-web, with myriads of narrow hallways. Cramped offices lack of storage space, and a tiny den for testing eyes that no self-respecting optometrist would tolerate make life tough for both doctors and patients...