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Word: tapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could have doubted Chataway's will to win. As expected, Kuc jumped into an early lead, but Chataway was right on his heels. When the Russian.sprinted, Chataway turned on the power and stayed with him. Lap after lap they rounded the track, close as a pair of vaudeville tap dancers. The Russian could not shake his pursuer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runner's Revenge | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Lafayette last week, 43-year-old Mass Builder Price announced that he has hardly begun to build. In the next six months, National plans to increase its capacity at Lafayette and build a new plant in Dallas to tap the fast-growing Southwest market. The new program will boost National's production from 120 houses a day to 275. Next year's production goal: 30,000, or about one in every 25 nonfarm houses built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: King of the Builders | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Died. James Howell Street, 50, prolific manufacturer of historical novels (Tap Roots, Goodbye, My Lady), who began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Lockheed's big project will be dedicated to what Quesada calls "the delivery problem." Says he: "Today we can build a thermonuclear weapon with as much yield as we want. The problem is how to get the damn thing there." To find the answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The General's Laboratory | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught to relax and not to lie awake worrying about when he will get to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleepy Talk | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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