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Word: stairway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both nights, it was noticed that ticket receipt totals were more than net income. Suspicious, H.L.U. members carefully cross-checked receipts and ticket stubs at the showing of "Stairway to Heaven." There was no loss...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Detectives Investigate $250 Theft from Liberal Union | 12/18/1952 | See Source »

Actually, the best features of the play are its lighting and its single set, the inside of a rooming house. The set is partitioned into a basement, a ground floor, and a stairway leading to the upper stories. And director Martin Ritt uses the set and lighting, especially in scene openings and closings, to achieve startling effects...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty | 11/13/1952 | See Source »

...disappeared; there was Harry Truman now, in the august company of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and F.D.R. Behind the speaker's stand loomed a new staircase. "When our people make an entrance," said one official, "they'll make an entrance-they won't sneak up a side stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Affairs: We Shall Triumph Again | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Questions. With that he had bolted off toward a stairway and had vanished. Who was he? A disappointed lover? An enemy of the girl's family? It was soon obvious that he was neither. Eileen had no enemies. Neither did her family. The young marine was her childhood sweetheart and she had never had another beau. The cops guessed that the killer might never even have seen her before -he had called her simply a "female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Senseless Killings | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Archaeologists believe that the sanctuary is older than the pyramid. It lies 82 ft. below the Temple of Inscriptions, and the massive altar blocks could not have been carried down the narrow stairway. The hieroglyphs on the altar are dates. They have not yet been deciphered, but the experts believe that the altar is at least 1,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steps Going Down | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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