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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen hemorrhages, and no one will agree on which doctor to call, or whether to act on his advice should it hurt. Complained one U.S. official: "The trouble with the French people is that they're too damned intelligent. They're so intelligent you can't steam them up for the old college try like you can in Britain or Germany. Yet that's just what France needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Face of Disaster | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, a new janitor in Claverly Hall neglected to heat up the flue well enough to insure the removal of the smoke. As a result the smoke backed up not only into Claverly itself, but also into the ventilating system of the network of steam tunnels which underlies all University buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cause of Yesterday's Two Fires Discovered | 2/27/1952 | See Source »

...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...varsity basketball team dropped its second game in two days--and its tenth straight--to Army, 65 to 59, at West Point Saturday night. The Crimson, obviously tired after its loss to Cornell the night before, led for most of three quarters, before running out of steam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Beats Fading Crimson Five, 65-59 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

There is a certain fascination to a Chemistry Laboratory, a fascination that lies hidden somewhere in the rows of bottles, the smells, and the steam baths that gurgle and spout like coffee percolators. Students in rugged Chemistry 20 must sense it presence, for they are willing to trade a normal outdoor life for one of box lunches and laboratory pallor. They say that a good deal of this fascination is because of their teacher, Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emory Professor of Chemistry...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Candles, Cats & Chem 20 | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

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