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Word: tankfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...with the gold ingots, Jane has displayed her more notable talents in high-cut shorts, low-cut dresses, pajamas, a nightgown, one-piece and two-piece swim suits. Her clothes designer can hardly be held responsible for the shape the movie puts her in. At ten fathoms, with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an aqualung, Jane is not at her best. Even the sharks seem to pursue her with not much conviction. Although it has little to recommend it, Underwater promises to be a hard picture to avoid. Ten days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Home Dry Cleaner. For do-it-yourself dry cleaners, Philadelphia's Renuzit Home Products Co. has developed a three-lb. aluminum cleaning machine. Clothes are placed in a perforated cylinder held in a tank filled with cleaning fluid, which is circulated by a hand plunger. Price : $7.95 including fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Lightweight results in the Amherst match, however, were inconclusive, as Ed Keating (123) picked up five points on a forfeit, Phil Andrews (130) lost a decision to Amherst captain Dean Tank, and Phil Burnaman did not make the weight for his usual 137 lb. position. Replacing him, Dave Jordan lost a decision, giving Amherst its only other score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wrestlers Beat Amherst, 21-9 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed to Charlestown. Press helicopters whirled overhead, and photographers swung perilously above the prison wall on a crane. State troopers converged on Charlestown, and a Walker Bulldog tank lumbered up to the prison gates. The Rev. Edward Hartigan, the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, was permitted to enter Cherry Hill to hear confessions and give Communion to some of the hostages. The prison physician was allowed to minister to a sick guard. Pretty Toby Green, 16, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: The Siege of Cherry Hill | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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