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Word: tenpins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bowling has become a 24-hour-a-day sport in many parts of the country. (Texas Instruments' workers start bowling at Dallas Cotton Bowling Palace at 4 a.m. after the night shift ends.) New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom. Between them A.M.F. and Brunswick claim this year they will add some 25,000 new automatic pin-setting machines in bowling alleys across the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Nevertheless, both A.M.F. and Brunswick are going abroad, where automated tenpin bowling is almost unknown. Brunswick has built commercial installations in Lebanon and Italy and signed a contract to convert J. Arthur Rank-owned movie houses into bowling alleys in England. A.M.F. this month automated the second bowling alley in Stockholm, will soon build similar facilities in Denmark, Belgium and Australia. With the expensive promotions and plush environments, A.M.F. and Brunswick hope to build bowling overseas up to the scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Family Boom | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...divorce, his doctor-mistress Monique suggests dissolving it through murder. As the efficient Monique drowns the wife in a bathtub and then makes her appear to drown in a stream-a Lady Macbeth superintending an Ophelia's fale -a scared Fernand quivers like jelly and wobbles like a tenpin. And then, when he can hardly stay on his feet, he suddenly discovers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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