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Word: spins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume 150,000 tons of steel and 7,300,000 barrels of cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Put Up or Shut Up | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...learned fugues before fractions, Bradford is content to spin recordings of 24 operas for a salary of $25 a week. He is never disrespectful to the music of opera, only its plots: "What is opera but some of the world's finest sounds wrapped up in the world's silliest stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera in Texas | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Tokyo car dealer had good news for Hirohito, who has been making do with a 15-year-old Packard. The Emperor could come right down and pick up his "glorious grey" Cadillac, ordered three years ago. After a trial spin, the delighted owner ordered his imperial crest (a 16-petaled chrysanthemum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The American Way | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...drive had ended with a fumble on the Yale 33, the Elis, with Doug Treat gaining consistently through the middle on a fake pass play, went to the Yardling 35, before the Crimson finally held. Then Treat punted a ball that hit the goal line, but had enough reverse spin to stop dead on the four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman, Jayvee Football Squads Drop Season's Final Games to Yale | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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