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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mink ranchers could relax-if the rest of the nation could not. Last week's blowup in the Justice Department let out what steam remained in the investigation of Government corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Dead End? | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Terrified men, women & children all through the block were thrown out of bed,knocked off their feet, buried or bruised by smashed plaster and fallen timbers. At the same split second, flame from blazing floods of aviation gasoline burst into great curtains of fire. Clouds of smoke, and of steam created by the driving rain, billowed skyward. Trees filled magically with nightgowns and lingerie from the cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Thunderbolt | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...fancy and expensive training devices found in many college field-houses. Ingenious Harvard athletes, however, have in part managed to make up for this lack of high-powered equipment. When obliged to take off excess weight in order to get in trim, Harvard wrestlers do quite well without a steam room. In the basement of the Indoor Building are steam tunnels so large that a man can easily run around in them--the combination of exercise and steam makes an ideal reducing agent...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Glorified Swimming Pool | 4/10/1952 | See Source »

...that everyone gets restless as spring approaches and that a person has to "let off steam." But surely there must be something more constructive to do than set a face-slapping record. I hope the CRIMSON staff tries to discourage these student pranks and stunts rather than play them up as good human interest stories. However, I feel sure that the vast majority of Harvard students are not idle pranksters and practical jokers, but are well on their way to manhood. It's only a few immature ones who harm the reputation of the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soldier Comments | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Force plane took off from Clark Field last week with a group of newsmen. From a distance, the flyers could spot a towering column of smoke and steam that cut through the haze like a high-piled thunderhead. Closer in, they dropped down to observe green acres of ocean that were boiling and rolling. In the center of that vast caldron, breaking 250 feet above the surface, the crater of a new volcano could be seen belching clouds of gas and great black boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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