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Word: sprayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this the do-it-yourself addict also adds a paint spray gun with an attached air compressor for $60, an exhaust fan to carry off the fumes for $20, plus a $200 collection of chisels, wrenches, hammers, screw drivers, vises and pliers. For outdoor work he buys a $125 power lawn mower, a $35 hedge trimmer, a $115 chain saw for work on his trees, a $250 tractor to plow his garden and shovel snow from his driveway. By the time he is finished, he has as much as $2,000 invested in his new hobby, and he can build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...plate, Willie stands, with comfortable authority, in the classic legs-astraddle pose (weight about equally divided between both legs, feet about a yard apart). His big bat (35 in., 34 oz.) is currently connecting for a hit one out of three times (a .331 clip). A "spray hitter," apt to send the ball to any field, he rarely tries to place his shots but swings for the fences. "When you tag 'em good," says Willie Mays, "they'll go over the roof in any park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...merely drinking wine did not make a dent in the surplus, Dillon could run wine in its showers, and the Department of Buildings and Grounds could spray the shrubs with rich, red, life-giving fluid. Naturally, late working students would burn the midnight wine, and clever students would lever be devising new means to use up the surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bordeaux to Go | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutor, 2 Students Save Third Floor In Winthrop Fire | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Starring as the reactivated reserve skipper, Gary Cooper is probably the best thing about the picture. In his usual--and favorite--role of Gary Cooper, he is quite at home on the bridge of his handy little ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: U.S.S. Teakettle | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

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