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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flaming starkly in cold October air, the white fires of steel processing burn inexorably into the small hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...think that just by their own steam they are going to get there," the secretary said, adding under questioning that the United States has "no commitment of any kind to aid in that...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Offers Formosa Armistice, Cut in Nationalist Military Power; Little Rock Schools Remain Shut | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

Right then and there the steam went out of the meeting, but Front Royal parents had at least made it clear that there is a limit to patience and endurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Unrest in Virginia | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...times earnings in 1949, 10.2 in 1953, and 12 times earnings at the bottom of the decline last October. But few security analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish. Only a minority last winter foresaw the rise. Some of that minority's present opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Breakthrough | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...artificial light is lost somewhere amidst the smoke and steam, but Nomily can be seen slumped over his glass. His pensive silence is suddenly interrupted by an off-stage voice...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: A Drinking Man | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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