Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventies, 90% of China's imports came from Britain, British India and Hong Kong, and 70% of China's exports were going to British ports. But the heyday of the British merchants began after the Suez Canal was opened, with steam packets pushing the sailing clippers off the seas. It lasted until the Sino-Japanese War, which followed by World War II, shook loose the British grip on China. But in 1946 Jardine's had regained 50% of the tea trade...
Since that effort, the College has settled down to more staid Pogo riots, but in the past week other schools have taken up the newest college fad as the perfect outlet for blowing off pre-exam steam...
...knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps as well. To keep the steam in pressure cooker sales, Keating reheated them with a cooker big enough to sterilize baby's bottles...
...London, an enthusiastic audience filled the Palladium to applaud 68-year-old Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mammas") Tucker on the 30th anniversary of her first appearance in Britain. Next morning the critics added their cheers. Said the News Chronicle: "She is as irresistible as a steam roller. She is Miltonic as well as Rabelaisian; for she is full of 'nods and becks and wreathed smiles' and is the personification of 'sport that wrinkled care derides...
...nots. The only way to prevent tension is to separate them, especially during the difficult hours of the early evening. Parietal rules being what they are, the haves are forced to come out for air at eight o'clock. It's not fair to ask them to use the steam tunnels or the central kitchen tunnels to get their dates to House dances...