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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other House concessions are established periodically, but their volume of business is apparently too small to maintain financial equilibrium. A concession operator must do about $5,000 worth of business to make a 15 or 20 per cent profit worth the time he spends at the counter, Burke estimated. Most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Concessions Decline in Houses | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

The new French pictures are frankly sexy-probably on the average a little more sexy than the old French pictures. They are also Nouvelle Vaguely romantic in love scenes, which they often shoot through peculiar filters in a tricky way. Much of the camera work, in fact, is too clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Had the man from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Abominable Snowoman | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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